[Antennas] Ground rod questions (Ground currents)

rbethman rbethman at comcast.net
Wed Jul 1 14:15:53 EDT 2009


Yes sir!  bad connections at the pole/transformer can cause ALL manner 
of issues and problems.

Anyway, we in the amateur community look at our antenna systems and 
their related grounds.

We normally do NOT get into power sources.

I'd like to get us back to "NORMAL PROGRAMMING"!

Phil - How goes the ground system for your antenna farm?

Bob - N0DGN

Dave Holford wrote:
>
>
> We had exactly that problem a couple of weeks ago.
> The two sides varied by up to 20 volts at random times.
> Took the Power crew 10 minutes to find the loose neutral at the 
> distribution transformer - apparently it was being shaken by passing 
> traffic. Problem solved.
>
> Dave    VE3HLU
>

-- 
Bob - NØDGN



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