To All, I am setting up my shack and have a dilemma as to the best location with respect to grounding and RFI. My choices are a second floor bedroom or an unfinished portion of the basement. I intend
A choice between basement and second story, I'd choose basement even if RFI proofing a second story shack wasn't nearly impossible. IMO its just a lot easier to do with easy acces to the power panel
Sure -- my shack is on the second floor, I run a big amp, and grounding is not an issue. There are several keys to this. 1) A connection to earth has NOTHING to do with keeping RF out of your gear, o
I am setting up my shack and have a dilemma as to the best location with respect to grounding and RFI. My choices are a second floor bedroom or an unfinished portion of the basement. I intend to run
I agree with Jim. It seems that I have nearly always wound up with an upper floor shack. Here I'm on the 3d floor, and in my last several QTH's, I've been on anything from 2d (usually) to 14th and 18
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Something to think about, with respect to getting wires and cables up to the second floor is that standard rain gutter downspout makes a nice "raceway" to run all the cables in that is inconspicuous
To All, Thanks for the input. I had forgotten about bringing the coax, ground, rotator control, remote coax switch control, and of course 240 VAC for the Alpha in the room. Taking all of that into co