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Re: [TenTec] If you ground it - it will come!

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] If you ground it - it will come!
From: Rideout Family <wa6ipd@dslextreme.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 14:32:58 -0700
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NO! NO! NO!  Take everything out in the back yard and bury it!

Art



Lynn Lamb wrote:
> Grounding/Ungrounding....
>
> Suggestion: Disconnect/unplug everything often and pull to the center of the 
> room!
>
> Everything means: rotator controls (A/C and control cables), remote switches 
> (again A/C and control cables), modems, phone lines (Oh gosh, for sure), 
> Printers (etc), BEVERAGES, keyers, and ALL GROUNDS for sure.
>
> It's not that lightning or static charges will 'get your equipment'; it's 
> 'when it will get your equipment'.
>
> Bond equipment together is fine and recommended, but NOT to a ground rod 
> (s).  I know little about life perhaps, but suggesting any ground path 
> directly or remotely through equipment is just asking for problems.
>
> We all need to know more about RF grounding and A/C grounding, hi.
>
> Now the flames.. they are authorized, but this bloat is following his own 
> advice, perhaps a bit late, but I have learned the hard way.
>
> FWIW, Lynn W4NL
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