If you are in an area that gets a lot of lightning you could look into additional lightning protection in addition to grounding it. Even with proper grounding, a lightning strike to the antenna will probably damage whatever it's connected to, no matter what. If you do tie the grounding rod to your home system, you risk introducing problems if it's not meant to be wired that way. But at least it won't explode or catch on fire like it would if the antenna as ungrounded. The risk if you don't connect it is that whatever equipment the antenna is connected to could be damaged if there were to be a lightning strike. If you don't have a grounding rod you could wire it to one without connecting the rod to your breaker box. If you are planning on installing the antenna near that, you could wire it to that. Usually it's either at the electric meter or at the transformer (in which case it's probably not accessible). You might already have a grounding rod in the ground for your home electric service. It sounds like the idea is to provide a safe path if lightning were to strike the antenna. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm not an electrician by any means and this is maybe the most ambitious install I have attempted (I am only a baby Mustachian, please hold your facepunches). Some instructions also indicate that to meet NEC regulations I then need to attach the grounding rod to the house breaker box ground. Most seem to indicate that I need 10 gauge copper wire going from the antenna J-mount to a grounding block attached to a grounding rod driven at least 4 feet into the ground. I could try an attic install to bypass the whole process, but my living room is a fairly long distance from my attic and I'm trying to limit the cable run length. My Googling around has led to the realization that an outdoor antenna installation requires grounding, but the actual requirements for such grounding vary greatly. I'm about 30 - 33 miles from the Cleveland stations I want to receive. My previous attempt used a somewhat crappy indoor AmazonBasics 'Extreme Performance' antenna, which only got me some blocky channels. I just bought the Clearstream 2V UHF / VHF outdoor antenna + coax in the second attempt in my quest to eliminate cable while maintaining the Mrs.' need for sports.

Installing clearview antenna