[ICOM] Yet another question about 706 rig

[Buck]

Its an old house. There are three pronged outlets but not three wires to the
box.  

Besides that I constantly hear that a rig should be grounded using the
shortest possible route to ground and to have a separate ground from the
electrical circuit.  

Often Electrical boxes are grounded through galvanized rods instead of
copper ground rods.  Radios should be grounded to copper ground rods.  

That's what I have learned and is reinforced by the ARRL Handbook, antenna
book and an independent author's antenna book.

Buck
N4PGW


-----Original Message-----
From: awallacejr at sbcglobal.net [mailto:awallacejr at sbcglobal.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 1:04 PM
To: ICOM Reflector
Subject: Re: [ICOM] Yet another question about 706 rig

Buck-

With all due respect, if your mains are three pronged with proper house
grounding, why would you want to additionally ground your equipment with a
separate "wire out the window"?  Doesn't that type of extra grounding invite
stray RF, ground loops, etc?

Andy K5VM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buck" <na4fm-list at towncorp.net>
To: "'ICOM Reflector'" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: [ICOM] Yet another question about 706 rig


> George,
>
> Why would he not want to ground his rig?
>
> Buck
> N4PGW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George, W5YR [mailto:w5yr at att.net]
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:43 PM
> To: ICOM Reflector
> Subject: Re: [ICOM] Yet another question about 706 rig
>
> Jim, that "ground wire out the window" can be an excellent antenna for
> picking up computer crud. You might want to rethink why you are using it
and
> see whether or not you really need it for the radio.
>
> 73, George W5YR
> Fairview, TX
> w5yr at att.net
> http://www.w5yr.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James E Good" <jimgood at dfwonline.net>
> To: "ICOM Reflector" <icom at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 12:30 PM
> Subject: [ICOM] Yet another question about 706 rig
>
>
> > I'm just wondering.  The room where my radio is set up also serves as a
> > computer room.  The computer is on one wall (to be near the telephone
> line)
> > while the IC 706 MK II G is on the opposite wall (to run a ground wire
> > through a window).  The computer has a 10Base-T network card installed
and
> > several as yet unused USB ports.  Would it be possible to use either an
> > 802.11x wireless adaptor at the computer (either on the USB port or on
the
> > network port) and a similar converter nearer the radio and fed into the
> data
> > port to send/receive some of the different data modes the 706 can
utilize?
> >
> > I had not seen any question on this specific topic here in the past, so
> I'm
> > not sure if it had already been addressed.  If it has, please forgive
the
> > ignorance and direct me to the information.  If it has not and anyone is
> > able to help, thank you very much.
> >
> > Thanks to all for the information already posted on the different Icom
> > products and comparisons to other products.
> >
> > 73's to all.
> > Jim Good KD5VXH
> >
> >
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