
TV Antenna (rooftop) Grounding?
I installed an antenna on my roof. I am running an insulated copper wire from the mast to either a galvanized steel or an aluminum rod (not sure which - I got it from my neighboor who is an HVAC worker) driven about 5 ft into the ground. The coaxial cable from the antenna is run into a grounding block which is also grounded to the same steel (aluminum?) rod by insulated copper wire. After the grounding block, the coaxial is then run into a splitter used by the cable company in a box outside my house (from when I used to have cable). The cable company's splitter is attached to some sort of grounding plate which has a short copper ground wire attached to my electric box. Coaxial cable is run from the splitter and into my house at two different locations, each about 10-15 ft from the splitter.
Does this sound like it is properly grounded to bleed out static electricity build-up? Any concerns about grounding it to two different places (rod and electric box)?
All of the grounds in a house are required to be connected together.
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