I need to bond an aluminum railing that will be next to our new hot tub with #8 solid copper that connect to the bonding lug on the hot tub. The connection will be exposed to the weather and the house is next to a large saltwater bay, Can i just use a AL9CU lug or should i be looking at another method ? Yes this will be permitted and the final determination will be the inspector but I would like to get it right. Paul

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.