[bars] Shack Grounding

[Robert Montgomery]

Good evening everyone,

New ham here and I'm in the process of grounding my shack and have a few questions.
I've already grounded everything in my shack to a copper bar with the braided straps.

I do not have an outside electrical service ground.
The ground wire goes inside and terminates in the electrical panel.
Coming out of the electrical panel I have a 6 gauge grounding wire which connects to my incoming copper water line from the street.

The electrical panel is 10' closer to my shack setup than the water pipe.
Since the grounding wire connected to the water line goes directly into the electrical panel, my plan was to connect my inside shack ground to the electrical panel.

My only thought is that if I do take an indirect lightning strike, if the wire goes to the electrical panel, could reek some havoc in panel or would it be smarter to go directly to the water pipe.
Would love to hear everyone thoughts on this.
Thanks in advance.

Rob
KC1QKU


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