Okay, what about when you are living in an apartment building where you
may be up stairs and may nob be able to fround anything rather well.  I
know that in most apartments antennas are tricky as well.





On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote:

> There are lots of theories on this one.
>
> The worst way is to use the chassis ground
> and connect it to the plate screw on your outlsets.
>
> One place to start would be to get all your equipment
> grounded together, and then consider a wire to
> earth ground.  But if you have any transmitted RF,
> you have to be careful that your ground wire isn't an
> antenna, which it will often be form the second floor.
>
> Most people I know do not ground equipment from
> the second floor - even transmitting equipment - for
> that reason.
>
> And, you can try the MFJ artificial ground, one of which
> I will probably put on eBay in the near future.  I used
> this with a modest transceiving station some ways back
> with reasonable results.
>
> 73, Byron
>
> At 05:29 PM 9/14/2001 -0400, JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON wrote:
> >Okay, well I think that I am full of cards in terms of my computer, but I
> >am up on the second floor, and would like to try to ground some sturf
> >here, and I think that just wwapping the power supply will help with these
> >being so old here, but what is the best way of grounding when you are up
> >staris?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 12 Sep 2001, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote:
> >
> >> I ground everything to a rod into the ground, and my
> >> equipment is all in the basement.  My longest ground
> >> lead is under two meters in length.  (I'm an HF guy.)
> >>
> >> For my PC, I make sure every slot has a card in it or
> >> a cover over the opening and the cover is tightly
> >> attached so it is grounded.
> >>
> >> Every wire on the operating position (just about) has
> >> an RF choke (toroid) on it.  I have stray RF.  And I put
> >> AC filters on everything, including the main panel.
> >>
> >> 73, Byron
> >>
> >> At 05:39 AM 9/12/2001 -0400, JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON wrote:
> >> >I guess what I ask is what are you using to shield the RF?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Do you have a PC nearby?  Or something you moved
> >> >> in with an onboard processor?  Can you hear the noise
> >> >> on anything else?
> >> >>
> >> >> At 03:54 AM 9/11/2001 -0400, JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON wrote:
> >> >> >I can't hear it on AM radio, but it is like a loud buzzing and
> electrical
> >> >> >noise on the 30-50 MHz bandwhich on a scanner I have here will only be
> >> >> >tuned in FM.
> >> >>
> >>
>