Outside TV Antenna Basic Installation 

Clear and to-the-point with helpful graphics. This is a very good video. 👍🏻

Excellent little film, I think is talks about everything. Thanks

Very thorough video! Now if I can hire someone to do it for me! Many people wanting a TV antennae again.

We put in battery backup for our solar panels for whenever we are turned off by the electric company for high winds and fire hazard. That meant we had to put up a rain gutter to protect the equipment (outside) in a cabinet and the gutter meant we had to move our antenna from the eave. I used some of your instructions. We put in a pole about 14 feet (shorter than our chimney but the chimney is the wrong direction for air waves anyway). I connected 6 foot coax cables to the two antennas and I connected them to a combiner that has a ground block connection. I connected the TV coax that goes through the house to the combiner. We put the copper wire connected to a grounding rod in the ground through the combiner connection and also wrapped the copper around a bolt on the pole. We now get more channels than we did before (17 English channels in North San Diego County.) I sure hope we are grounded good enough. I heard California is generally so dry that the soil is not moist enough for a ground to work anyway. Here is the connector/ground I got on Amazon. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JPE1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Do you think we're good?

Fantastic detail, thank you!

Finally someone explains step 1 step 2 step 3 and doesn't talk about irrelevant bs ie. The weather I'm there state and there kids grades ECT thank you

Here in Canada, I've only see ground rods used on barns, sheds, other outbuildings or rural homes on wells and septic systems. Urban homes, almost exclusively, have their electrical panel and antennas grounded to the copper water supply line to the home, before the meter. The charge from static electricity or a lightning strike is directed into the city's water supply network through the earth. Because of cold winters, water lines entering the home are more than 4 feet below grade to prevent freezing. Some new subdivisions aren't suitable for the application because they now have plastic/poly supply lines, rather than copper. I've also wondered; My older home has a 4 inch solid cast iron plumbing/sewer vent stack that protrudes through the roof about 18 inches high and it's quite close to my antenna. Solid grounding to the stack would certainly provide a direct path to ground, but maybe vented sewer gas (methane) would not mix well with lightning.

My town only allows an antenna to be ten feet above the house, I installed mine in late afternoon when the "village idiots" were safely at home, Once installed nobody noticed, I went 13 feet up and have amazing reception, Now whenever I have a mixed drink I find myself staring at it with pride!

In the indoor grounding option without the optional ground rod, is it ok for the coax and ground wire to be touching when going through the conduit?

good work.tu

Is the ground wire just to handle lightning strikes? So if you're in an area that "never/rarely" gets lightning, then seems grounding is not needed?

You showed an optional ground rod near the antenna when the service rod is too far away. I would think this would be properly grounded at this point, but you stated on the video to then run#6 copper wire from the optional ground rod to the service ground rod. I don't understand why this is necessary.

Will #12 work? A electrician told me #12 would work,I have mine run to the service ground as shown .

Correct way to ground your antenna.

I'm seeing two variations on grounding the mast. This one shows the mast ground wire going through the grounding block then into the ground. Others say that the mast ground wire must go directly into the ground, and the coax would then be grounded by running the coax through a grounding block with a ground wire going only from the grounding block to the ground. Which is to code?

For coax installations outside. New coax connectors are compression type and kind of connectors. Compression type and kind of connectors provide a water tight seal. Do not use a rubber boot outside , No requirement for black electrical tape. If you choose to use tape. Use the , Self Fusing , Self Amalgamating Tape. If you choose to use a rubber boot , then fill the boot with grease and slide into place. Do not use the crimp type connectors outside.

The basic rule of thumb is Lightning takes The shortest path to ground so ground your antenna mast pole with #6 gauge copper wire straight down to an 8ft copper ground rod. Copper ground rods vary in price but you should be able to order one online for around $20 That's cheap insurance❗

What is a preamp?

Loving the porn music in the video

Why does this guy sound like he’s drunk?