Ground rod question

Here is my situation. I have a shed in my backyard with two outlets fed with 10/2 from the house circuit breaker. As a result, the shed does not have its own ground rod or subpanel.

I am installing an antenna on a pole next to the shed for a radio and I need to ground it. I understand the concepts of grounding the antenna mast and coax to a ground rod driven at the base of the pole. That's no issue.

The problem I'm having is that I will need to bond the ground rod for the antenna to the house ground rod for the main circuit breaker. I understand that concept as well as why it's necessary.

However, I have an issue. The ground rod at the shed is about 100 feet away from the house's ground rod. That means I'd have to dig a trench all the way back to the house ground rod, passing under a sidewalk and busting through rocky soil to get there. It's not a straight line either, I'd have to go around the corner of the house.

Surely there must be some alternative? Is it possible to rewire things at the shed so that it has it's own ground rod for its power supply which is separate from the house ground rod and would not need to be attached? The shed has no subpanel currently because it is just fed with a circuit from the house. The 10/2 wire currently powering it is working fine and I'd like to keep from having to dig all of that up and use something else when all I need out there is basic 120v power.

A few people have suggested an "isolation transformer" but I don't know how that would be wired in.

 

If you are installing an antenna on a METAL pole run from the ground up the side of the shed..... you need to do nothing. The fact that there is power in the shed does not come into the antenna grounding and you do not connect to it.

You could connect that metal pole to its own ground rod with #8 wiring.

 

The metal pole is freestanding and concreted about 2ft into the ground. I was under the impression that not connecting the antenna ground rod to the house ground rod was out of code and would be dangerous.

Is that not the case?

 

Any ideas? I've been reading up on this so I was under the impression I'd have to bond any antenna ground rod to the house ground rod.

 

You'd bond an antenna to the house ground if the antenna was on the house.
Your antenna is not on or near the house.

 

"That means I'd have to dig a trench all the way back... "

Stop right there. No, you don't. Omit that step. No grounding electrode conductor is needed under the lawn between buildings to interconnect ground rods with..

If you had a ground rod against the shed for the antenna on the shed and another ground rod against the shed near a subpanel in that shed then those two ground rods would need to be interconnected with #6 copper run on the exterior as much as possible.