[ICOM] RE: Noise in 706

[Dick Flanagan]

At 08:58 AM 6/18/2004, Davies, Doug A FOR:EX wrote:
 >I have one more ground to try.  The roof rack.  Still trying to figure out
 >how to do it.  Maybe that's causing some of it.  As I mentioned previously,
 >no antenna connected, no noise.

Be sure to ground your car's biggest radiating antenna -- the exhaust 
pipe.  It runs from the engine block back about 20 feet, with insulated 
standoffs to keep it ungrounded.  Run a piece of flexible braid from the 
frame to the rear end of the pipe.  That reduced my noise by 80%.  All of 
the other grounding added perhaps 5-10% more.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
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