[R-390] Ham Shack Grounding Help!!!!

[Roy Morgan]

At 11:21 PM 6/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>I have received lots of good info that I can use to help eliminate my noise
>problems.  I was out all day today so did not get to follow up on any of
>this.  Yesterday however I did do one check and it did not look good.  There
>is 60 v. from the chassis of my radio to the cold water pipe.


Standard condition.
Caused by NORMAL operation of the line filter capacitors.
GROUND your radio to the cold water pipe, PLEASE.
Do not use any ground fault interruptor outlets.

>  Not good at
>all.  I am going to get an electrician in here as soon as possible to see
>what we are going to have to do to fix that.


That is cused by the RADIO line filter. NOT by the electrical system in 
your house, except that you have ungrounded outlets.

Roy


Roy Morgan
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