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From a safety viewpoint all ground points are equal.
For _RF_ however, one ground point _may_ be better then another, depending on how the wiring goes through the house, and where the ground wire is picking up QRM, hence Richard's suggestion to feed the receiver from a wall outlet in another room. =================== Even better: If no AC is required but say 12 -14 V-DC , run the receiver from a sealed lead-acid battery and only have a RF earth. My complete station runs on 12V batteries (charged by 2 solar panels and a wind gen) ,resulting in NO mains born interference . If charging from mains ,one could switch-off charging while receiving and only put charger on battery or batteries while transmitting. however when the batteries are on the charger all the time the batteries will probably 'absorb' any mains noise ; moreover the mains power supply unit then does not need to supply peak current to the transmitter ,just the average current which for a typical 100 W PEP transmitter (even with compression) is not more than approx. 8 Amperes. In such a situation the station will also always be available (for some time) during a power outage ......emergency comms. With batteries the supply voltage will on average be below 13.8 V ,hence the transmitter output will be slightly lower resulting in a signal which will be lower but never more than a small fraction of 1 S-point. Note : When reducing power by a factor 2 the resulting signal will be reduced by half 1 S-point. Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH |
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