Ham Radio: Lightning / Grounding

Antennas and Grounds for Apartments
ARRL 1980 article on ham radio antennas and grounds for apartments. From QST.

Assorted Grounding Hints and Kinks and Technical Correspondence
ARRL QST articles on grounding from the Hints and Kinks section.

Choices and consequences of station lightning protection
This website outlays the basic knowledge, safe design and installed equipment that are employed in the lightning protection system of a US Coast Guard Auxiliary Radio Facility. This should also be relevant to the Civil Air Patrol, MARS, and Amateur Radio stations who provide emergency communications capability for public safety or the military.

Different grounds for different shacks
ARRL Lab notes, 1996. Answers to common questions like "could I use a water pipe instead?"

Grounding Concepts and Techniques, and mobile grounding

Grounding Q&A
ARRL article on grounding. How important is a ground? What are the ground/counterpoise alternatives to driving an 8-foot metal pole into the ground? How do I get a balanced antenna? How do mobile HF operators get RF grounds?

Lab Notes - Lightning Protection
QST December 1994.

Lightning Protection - ARRL
From QST and ARRL Antenna Book.

Lightning Protection for the Amateur Radio Station - QST article by the Polyphaser folks. June 2002.

Military handbook. 800+ pages. GROUNDING, BONDING, AND SHIELDING FOR ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENTS AND FACILITIES