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Author: Pete Smith <n4zr@contesting.com>
Date: 17-Dec-2000 01:17:09
At 03:59 PM 12/16/00 -0800, Ross Bogert wrote:
>Mark...I have a KW TS450S, F12 C4@45' and today hooked up a Timewave DSP
>599ZX...ALOT of feedback till I put the DSP unit on it's own DC power supply
>instead of the rig's Astron 35 power supply...Also try a "zero length"
>coaxial RF ground, using coaxial cable from rig to ground rod with 2 .001mf
>1kv disc capacitors at each end attached between the shield and the center
>conductor. To avoid ground loops RF Ground only the RF generator, nothing
>else...See the Sep 1996 issue of 73 Amateur Radio Today for more info on the
>coaxial ground...

The length of the ground conductor (and the feedline, for that matter)
could indeed make a difference on RF in the shack, but while this
"zero-length" ground may have a different resonant length than a single
wire, it won't be zero.

73, Pete N4ZR

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