The power company installed a remote reading sensor on my meter.
I noticed a noise increase. Took a portable receiver into the basement
and found noise along a very old house ground to my water line. It was
about 30 feet away from the power company ground. I totally
disconnected the old ground wire and noise went away. yeah !
The next day the power company was up and re calibrating their
equipment. They did not say anything to me about it.
Al ls well that ends well.
73
Bruce-K1FZ
www,qsl.net/k1fz/beveragenotes.html
On Thu, 15 Jan 2015 11:55:37 -0800, Bill W7KXB <w7kxb@msn.com> wrote:
>
> Ken: Better read up on issues that arise with multiple ground rods
for home AC grounding. I don't have the info at hand but you'll find it
on the www
> Good luck
> de Bill/w7kxbTo: rfi@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [RFI] RF getting into 4-port wireless router - progress
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>
> On 14, Jan 2015, at 21:33, Kenneth G. Gordon
<kgordon2006@frontier.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, Gang, two things have changed since I removed and rolled up the 30+
> > feet of #8 useless ground wire to the panel:
> >
> > 1) The lights in the shack no longer change brightness in time with the
> > keying of my rig and amp. It was very slight, despite the fact that I had
> > the amp on a dedicated 120 V line, but it was there. Now it is no longer
> > in evidence. Zero: zip: nada.
> >
> > 2) It appears that I am no longer getting into my 4 port wireless router.
> >
> > 3) There is no more "weirdness" with the basement GFCI.
> >
> > There MAY be an additional effect:
> >
> > 4) It is POSSIBLE that my overall noise level, which has been a constant
> > 10 dB over S-9 on 80 meters, is now only S-9. I find this last to be
> > particularly hard for me to believe, but it sure looks like it is a fact.
> >
> > Now, the larger question: if this is so...WHY is it so? I am more
> > mystified than I was to begin with...
> >
> > And, BTW, the ONLY thing I have done so far is deal with that useless
> > panel ground wire.
> >
> > I also suspect that what I had thought was the lights dimming in time
> > with my keying was exactly the opposite: they were getting brighter with
> > my keying.
> >
> > I am going to go buy another 4 ea 8' ground rods tomorrow...
> >
> > I now have just loads of #8 solid copper with which to tie them all
> > together. :-)
> >
> > Ken W7EKB
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