TopBand: HELP: 160 TVI

[Phil Clements]

At 08:39 PM 11/16/97 EST, you wrote:
>I just discovered this evening that I am causing TVI with our family TV
>(JVC 27").
>I never had this problem last year season though.  This is happening when
>I turn the amp on.
>
>My ant system is this, Inverted-L, vertical is 85 feet high, the
>remainder of the antenna slopes down to my 40 ft tower toward the TV
>antenna (not on Cable TV), its about 30 feet from the TV ant..  At the
>base of the Inv-L  I have a 10 inch square aluminum plate with a 2 inch
>diameter hole in the center of it, in the center of that hole is my
>ground rod, which I have the plate connected to.
>
>Without checking it out yet my only guess is that the ground strap has
>oxidized on the aluminum plate.
>
>Just thought I would ask some of you 160 experts what you think.
>
A ground rod has very little to do with RF. It is for lightning protection.
Do you have a set of radials under your antenna? The RF could be traveling
through your house wiring from the amp to the TV set. Just shooting in the
dark here due to lack of more info.

(((73)))
Phil, K5PC

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