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[QUOTE=&quot;agalloch07, post: 147019, member: 98504&quot;]I am installing two ClearStream 2V antennas on my roof. One is for the living room one is at the back of the house for one of the bedrooms. I have been reading up about how to properly ground the mast but i am still unclear on how to do it and what type to wire to use.For the front room there is a ground rod where the cable tv and phone lines were grounded. This is where i was going to ground the coaxial cable but i still need to ground the mast. I was going to sink a separate ground rod and run a cable over the roof edge and ground it that way (cable would be about 20 foot long). Then i read that that it needs to be wired to the electrical box for it to be a proper ground. I could run it across the roof to the back of the house where the electric meter is but that is going to take 40 foot of cable.I had planned on using #8 solid THHN wire for a ground. But when i got to my home improvement store all they sold for outdoor use was stranded THHN. They sold spools of solid THHN #10 so i bought that but then when i read he spool it said it was for indoor use. So now i have no idea what i am doing and what thickness or type of wire i should even buy. Is #10 thick enough for 40 feet to the electric box? My house has quite a bit of overhang and i know you cant put sharp bends in ground wire so i am just going to let it dangle instead of trying to wrap it under the eave. Should i be using stranded or solid and what gauge and does it really need to be outdoor rated since its just a ground wire?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="agalloch07, post: 147019, member: 98504"]I am installing two ClearStream 2V antennas on my roof. One is for the living room one is at the back of the house for one of the bedrooms. I have been reading up about how to properly ground the mast but i am still unclear on how to do it and what type to wire to use. For the front room there is a ground rod where the cable tv and phone lines were grounded. This is where i was going to ground the coaxial cable but i still need to ground the mast. I was going to sink a separate ground rod and run a cable over the roof edge and ground it that way (cable would be about 20 foot long). Then i read that that it needs to be wired to the electrical box for it to be a proper ground. I could run it across the roof to the back of the house where the electric meter is but that is going to take 40 foot of cable. I had planned on using #8 solid THHN wire for a ground. But when i got to my home improvement store all they sold for outdoor use was stranded THHN. They sold spools of solid THHN #10 so i bought that but then when i read he spool it said it was for indoor use. So now i have no idea what i am doing and what thickness or type of wire i should even buy. Is #10 thick enough for 40 feet to the electric box? My house has quite a bit of overhang and i know you cant put sharp bends in ground wire so i am just going to let it dangle instead of trying to wrap it under the eave. Should i be using stranded or solid and what gauge and does it really need to be outdoor rated since its just a ground wire?[/QUOTE]

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