[ARC5] 1ST QSO with my BC-454-B and T-19

[Mike Hanz]

Heh...been there done that.  Don't feel like you're alone.  The command 
sets seem to benefit from some pretty serious bonding practice - that's 
consistent with their use in an aircraft where you have a lot of 
aluminum to bond grounds to.  It's easy to forget that in the heat of 
getting a set running.  They all do well mounted to some kind of ground 
plane...AB5S uses aluminum tape on his mounting plywood, but one could 
use aluminum flashing or sheet aluminum just as well.

Glad you were able to gitrdun...

  - Mike

On 12/31/2012 10:38 AM, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> The jacks and relay were there all the time.
>
> I added a ground from the PL-259 shield to the T-19 chassis, which was 
> attached to the PS ground by the big interconnect cable. Now, antenna, 
> PS, and radios share a common ground.
>
> Someone on this list did in fact ask me if the PS and radio was 
> grounded together, which they were.  But the coax shield didn't share 
> that ground.   This should have been obvious to me, but sometimes I 
> miss the obvious.....
>