ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Make that two reasons, the other being AC mains safety. This is normally done by the round pin on your AC plug, with the actual connection to ground being done
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- The green wire may or may not blow a fuse. If you were around in the days of only two wire AC plugs, you may remember standing barefoot on a concrete floor and
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Bill's Law of Stray RF: If adding an RF ground actually improves your signal, you have a much worse problem than you realize. Bill, W6WRT _____________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- When you hook up the ground wire, you are running some of your precious RF energy into dirt. I would not consider that an "improvement". You could also elimina
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- I agree with all you say, but you are only considering the impedance your TX sees. My point is you want your radiated RF up in the air, not down near the groun
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Actually they have figured it out. The chromate conversion coating process makes aluminum corrosion proof even in a high temperature salt spray environment, an
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- As I understand it, anodizing leaves the surface non-conductive, unlike chromate conversion. This might be ok for radials, however. Bill, W6WRT _______________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Do a Google search for Alodine. It is readily available, in fact I used it to chromate the chassis of the amp I am building. I bought mine from a company calle
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Like owning a boat, the initial cost is only the beginning. Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- I'm sure sailboat masts do take lots of strikes, but I question the reason you give. Here's why: The earth itself is the source of the static charge, right? If
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Reminds me of a fellow I heard on the air a few years ago. He had lots of towers and paid not a penny for any of them. When he wanted a tower, he just drove ar
You will soon be meeting a lot of your neighbors. I had the same situation and it was more than unpleasant. In fact, that is one of the main reasons I moved 99% of my operations to RTTY. Of all the c
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- A most astute observation. That should be in the ARRL RFI handbook if it isn't already. :-) Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Indeed you do. Of course you will also get all the phone calls too. Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Easily, at that power level. If you've never operated high power, you will be surprised to find there is a threshold level for RFI which does not work in the a
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- You can do the trimming in one step. After putting the antenna up, measure its resonant frequency and then calculate the percentage change needed to bring it t
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Without antenna tuners? Nearly all modern rigs have them built in, don't they? Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ ____________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- If money is no object, that should do. If money IS an object, you might consider open-wire feedline with a good balun at each end. Bill, W6WRT ________________
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: -- REPLY SEPARATOR -- Here's the method I use with an SWR analyzer such as the MFJ-259 or similar: Understand that a 1/4 wave vertical over a "perfect" ground will measure a feedpoi
I see the 1109 foot tower for $1 auction has ended with no takers. eBay item 250012574063 Bill, W6WRT _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ T