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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 0:02:29 -0500, starman wrote
(in message ): Tim Shoppa wrote: The RX-320 arrived Thursday, I hooked it up to the PC and got nothing but hash all over the bands. Then I looked at the ground my AC house wiring is hooked to (it's about a 40 foot run of wire from the AC entrance panel to the cold water pipe! Maybe it was technically compliant with the NEC when the house was built but it wasn't worth crap...) and decided I had to be able to do better. So I went to Home Depot, invested about $10 in some 1/2" copper pipe, and drove several 5-foot lengths near a handy window. Using this ground makes a world of difference. All the nasty noise went away. I learned my lesson! Tim. Nice work. However it's not a good idea to have more than one ground point for your domestic wiring. I suggest disconnecting the old copper pipe ground wire near the circuit panel. You can leave the long wire in place. Uh, well, uh, but - you do realize that you're suggesting ungrounding the entire house, don't you? By code - if he did that - he should replace every 3-conductor outlet with two-conductor outlets because the ground (green) has been removed from the system (illegal as it can be, of course). He did exactly as he should have. He maintained the electrical ground ("earth") and he created an "antenna" ground (chassis). Gray Shockley ----------------------- DX-392 DX-398 RX-320 DX-399 CCradio w/RS Loop Torus Tuner (3-13 MHz) Select-A-Tenna ----------------------- Vicksburg, MS US |
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