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Re: [TowerTalk] Station Ground

To: "bob finger" <finger@goeaston.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Station Ground
From: "Tom Rauch" <w8ji@contesting.com>
Reply-to: Tom Rauch <w8ji@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 19:57:36 -0500
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> Frank.   Experience talking there guys.  Beside,
radios/amps/antennas
> are today interconnected by coax, the braid of which is
securely
> attached with a  PL-259. What could be better?

Almost anything.

We should really NEVER, especially in a station using an
amplifier with a HV supply inside, depend on the coax shield
for an earth safety connection. The safety ground is
important. The RF ground is not, unless something else is
bad.

73 Tom

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