Grounding, lightning and RFI resources collected, and periodically posted, by MyrddinWyllt (a moderator for the Amateur Radio subreddit).
Grounding / Bonding
- The ARRL Manual on Grounding and Bonding
- US Military’s guidelines on grounding and bonding
- Motorola’s gold standard document on grounding
- MIT’s document on eliminating ground loops
- NEC 810 - about grounding
- NEC 820 - about antennas
- NEC Code, 810 is relevant section, requires free login
- K9YC’s slide presentation on station grounding and RFI
Lightning
- KT9OM’s discussion on lightning protection
- W8JI’s site on lightning grounds
- Polyphaser’s book on lightning protection and station grounds
RFI
- W1HIS' treatise on ferrite chokes
- NK7Z’s post on using an SDR as an RFI survey tool
- K9YC’s exhaustive document on handling RFI
- K9YC’s article on killing receive noise
- K9YC’s presentation on killing receive noise
- The contesting.com RFI mailing list archives
- The ARRL RFI Book
- ON4WW’s page on seeking and destroying RFI sources
- G3TXQ’s page on common-mode choke impedances
- ARRL’s ‘Sounds of RFI’ Collection
- The ARRL RFI Info Page (Contains links to other resources)
- KA7OEI’s blog post on containing switching PSU noise (warning - involves messing with mains voltage)
- KA7OEI’s blog post on quieting USB car power supply
