Heaven's!!! Maybe I'm doing SOMETHING right? I run 600 feet of 4"
spaced open wire feedline out to my 80m dipole. The feeders come in
through the eve's of the house, across about six feet in the attic,
down through the ceiling, down about 4" away from the wall, and
attaches to my Johnson KW Match box. I run an Omni 6 Plus, driving a
Titan 3. Most of the time, rag chewing with about 600 w out, and
DX'ng on all bands, except 160m and 30m, with 1400 watts out.
Located in the wall is the electrical feed to a GFI located in the
bathroom, next to my operating desk. That GFI has never tripped yet!
Right below (about 5') the point where my feeders enter the eve's,
is another GFI for my pool pump. This GFI trips when we have those
infamous south Georgia thunderstorm and get a lightning hit within 5
miles from here, but it too, has never been tripped by RF.
Think I'll leave well-enough, alone!
Tom - W4BQF
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Good.
That means you have stood up for something,
sometime in your life."
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Byron J. Watts" <bjw@byron.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] GFI Problems
Yup, every time I light up on the Omni-D barefoot on 40m I smoke
the GFI in
the back room. That'd be on a coil loaded vertical. GFI's don't
like RF
much at all, even a fluorescent light popping on and off will snap
them.
Hope we can find a solution, I tend to blow these alot
73 de KC0NPF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Greene" <w1cg@qsl.net>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 03:34
Subject: [TenTec] GFI Problems
Hi,
I hooked up my Swan Linear to my OMNI-VI and had some RF in the
shack when
using my Windom antenna which I cured by installing a couple of
1:1 baluns
in the coax feed line, but I still have one problem I haven't
solved
yet. When I transmit, the upstairs bathroom Ground Fault
Isolator trips,
probably on RF. The antenna is about 15 ft from the GFI, so the
wires
going to the GFI may be picking up the RF directly from the
antenna. On
my
vertical which is about 30 ft from the GFI, there are no RF
problems. Has
anyone had this problem, and what did you do to eliminate it? I
must be
somewhat common because I was talking to a local ham who had and
still has
the same problem. I was thinking about installing some .001 ufd
caps
across the wires in the bathroom wall coming into the GFI
receptacle. I
don't know if that would do the job or make it worse.
TNX for the bandwidth
Chas, W1CG
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