[Elecraft] K3S Proper Grounding

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I thought you loved that place.....

73, Guy.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> Scare the wildlife ... that's good, we've had it with "Nature."  We just
> sold the "farm," in part because the two jack rabbits had taken up
> permanent residence in the garden, the deer munched lunch on the roses, the
> big and little raccoons kept turning over Andrea's many pots, the flock of
> 30+ turkeys strolled in the big lawn pooping up a storm, the pair of hawks
> roosted on my tribander and screeched for days until the kids finally
> flapped away to escape Mom and Dad, and the two llamas from across the road
> out the back gate regularly visited the vineyard with their pal the goat.
>
> Turkeys have the IQ of a carrot although carrots don't poop on the lawn,
> possibly I'm disrespecting carrots.  Llamas not much better, the goat did
> seem to know night from day.  The deer were oblivious, the raccoons were
> mean, the hawks are protected, and the rabbits were pretty much fixated on
> what rabbits usually do and I couldn't estimate their IQ, but reproductive
> drive gets a 10 -- too many bunnies to count.
>
> I had the motion light problem, and as for you, only one of several.  On
> the "Line Your Hat With Tinfoil" theory, I wrapped the sensor in Reynolds
> Wrap with a strip down to the grounded mounting screw.  That solved the RF
> problem, but the "motion" part of the light disappeared. I tore
> increasingly larger holes at the front of the sensor and eventually
> everything worked and no RF problems.
>
> YMMV
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
> - That's NEXT weekend!
> - www.cqp.org
>
> On 9/26/2015 5:07 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>
> only effect is to scare the wildlife.  But, suggestions,
>>
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