Topband: Multiple Beverage Grounding

Jim Brown jim at audiosystemsgroup.com
Thu Nov 20 14:41:37 EST 2008


On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:07:11 -0400, Herbert Schoenbohm wrote:

>Any suggestions?

I don't consider myself an expert on the common grounding aspect of 
it, but I would be inclined NOT to bus them together. One thing I 
strongly recommend is a SERIOUS coax choke on each coax that comes 
home. Follow the recommendations in my Choke Cookbook for the bands 
you want the Beverage to cover, aiming for 5K ohms of common mode Z. 
My Beverages use 8 turns through one of the "Big Clamp-Ons" of #31 
Fair-Rite material described in

http://audiosystemsgroup.com/RFI-Ham.pdf  

Jim Brown K9YC





More information about the Topband mailing list