[1000mp] RE: Quadra Problem..

[Pete Smith]

At 12:26 AM 1/3/02 -0500, you wrote:
>An 8 ft ground rod is a good electrical ground but for RF you need
>shielding.  Try laying a couple of resonant radial wires connected to that
>ground rod and also use good wide braid from the equipment to a common
>ground point.  Don't "daisy chain" the gear together with ground wire.

Shielding?  The trick to a good RF ground is to avoid resonant lengths at
which the ground lead presents a high impedance to the radios.  Most above
ground shacks have long-enough ground leads so that they approach this
situation on one or more HF bands. My station is moderately RF-y on 15M for
this reason.

Why would you want to run the tuner on the Mark V when feeding a Quadra
anyhow?  Surely the input SWR is pretty low on all bands. 

73, Pete N4ZR

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