[ARC5] Stinson on grounding.

[Jay Coward]

Folks,
 3M makes a number of different types of aluminum and copper tapes that would do well here. I use 1" wide copper peel back tape at work as RF Bandaids to plug up leakage paths in high dynamic range microwave downconverters.
 On ebay someone has a number of lengths of 1/2" braid grounding strap. Don't know the numbers but should be easy to search for.

 Jay

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie Smith <vk2bcu at operamail.com>
To: Mark K3MSB <mark.k3msb at gmail.com>
Cc: ARC-5 List <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Dec 31, 2013 12:22 pm
Subject: [ARC5] Stinson on grounding.


  Hello Mark,
  Dave Stinson says that a good grounding system is essential for a
  command rig to work effectively.
  As I recall (he will correct me if I'm wrong, I hope) the grounding
  may be as simple as aluminium foil "tacked" onto a ply-wood backing.
  Then mount/ground the set-up on the foil "ground".

  Good to hear your set is working!

  73 de Les Smith
  vk2bcu at operamail.com


On Tue, Dec 31, 2013, at 23:40, Mark K3MSB wrote:
> I'll be banging away on my SCR-274N tonight and tomorrow as time permits
> and hope to work some of you!
> 
> The tone on the BC-459A is now significantly better that when I reported
> in
> October..  The solutions were to ground everything to everything and to
> add
> bypass capacitors to my power supply outputs.
> 
> 73 Mark K3MSB
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