[TenTec] Ten-Tec 706 Microphone

RaySoifer@cs.com RaySoifer at cs.com
Fri Dec 23 12:01:19 EST 2005


Hi Reed,

Following your suggestion, I took off the bottom plate and see that the 
ground connection between it and the chassis is OK (through a lockwasher lug at one 
of the mounting screws).  However, the upper portion of the 706 stand, which 
houses the circuitry, is unshielded plastic, so there's no mystery about how 
RF can get into it!

The station, including the Argonaut V, is well grounded, but my 80/160 meter 
antenna is an end-fed 130-foot wire so a certain amount of RF in the shack is 
inevitable when using it.  About 2 feet of the antenna is inside the shack, 
running from the outside wall to the antenna tuner.  There's no RF when using 
the 10-40 meter antenna, a Hy-Gain AV-640 over 100 feet from the shack and fed 
with buried coax.

I'll be on the lookout for some small ferrite beads that I can put on the 
connecting wires inside the mike stand.  Anybody got some?

73,

Ray W2RS



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