Topband: N5J Live Stream?

[Wes Stewart]

 George,
I'm not being critical, just curious, I don't have a lot of experience, but I've used my EU2000 for a couple of Field Days and from a lot of RV sites and have never even tried to ground the thing.  I park it 50-75 feet away, run an extension cord to the equipment and have at it. Of course I've never been on a quiet island but I've not had issue.
Also, you've done this before from Samoa and other places (200K QSOs I believe) have you not seen this before?  What is different this time?
Wes  N7WS

    On Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 12:03:21 PM MST, GEORGE WALLNER <aa7jv at atlanticbb.net> wrote:  
 
 Jim,
We are using all of the cores you have given me. They help, but it is hard 
to get a good ground at the top-end of the beach where the sand is very dry 
and rocks prevent rods getting driven deep enough to reach moist ground. 
Yesterday, a bit desperate, ran a 70 foot long GND wire to water, but I 
doubt it is doing much good. We got chokes on most coax and control cables 
but without good GND their effect is limited.

Using a single #31 2" core, how many turns of RG-6 do you think will give 
decent choking effect? (I know, it depends on the GND and other loading 
factors.)
TKS for all the ferrite cores! Will let you know if we need more!

GW



On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:48:34 -0700 Jim Brown  wrote:
>Hi George,
>
>Remind me where to send you more cores for your next trip. :)
>
>In the meantime, try grounding the generator chassis (and/or grounding pin) to a driven rod (or to screen/radials if you can't drive a rod). I've seen reports that this can be effective with some generators on some bands.
>
>73, Jim K9YC
>
>
>>Set up a DHDL RX antenna yesterday but it was picking up generator noise. Will move it today to reduce noise.
>
>

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