[TowerTalk] FW: Tower Grounds

[Clay Autery]

Just swapped my red/black zip cord K3 power cable for a hand made 6GA twisted pair...  lowered voltage drop to nil.
My speaker cables in the home theater are parallel speaker wire.... they grab 17- 40m transmissions and broadcast over speakers and re-radiate and turn my wife's mirror lights on...


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-------- Original message --------From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> Date: 10/17/17  11:03  (GMT-06:00) To: towertalk at contesting.com Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FW: Tower Grounds 
On 10/17/2017 8:15 AM, Grant Saviers wrote:
> I have never seen a "code compliant" stamped ground rod.  Also, I have 
> no way to measure Cu plating thickness, but would assume it was 
> cheated on as well.  Probably they all came from China where 1" = 19mm. 

Much of the red/black zip cord sold at hamfests as "speaker cable" and 
"power cable" is smaller gauge than marked. The insulation is thicker to 
conceal that fact. And zip cord is terrible for RFI -- twisted pair is 
FAR better.

73, Jim K9YC