Hi.

My father was an electrician, and when I got into ham radio, the first 
thing that he did was to modify the short wave receiver wiring so that all 
of the cases were grounded to the third pin of a three prong plug.  Then he 
replaced the circuit breaker for my bedroom with a ground fault 
interrupter.  And he made me promise to never open the lid of the 
Hallicrafters receiver when it was powered and to never touch any of the 
capacitors without discharging them first.

So, I didn't get a real good jolt until I bought the Apache and 
accidentally bridged the key.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 01:58 PM 4/25/2006 -0400, you wrote:
>Phil,
>
>Another jolt that'll wake you up is the one you get when you touch
>one piece of equipment that's grounded and one that isn't.  I had
>that problem when I made my first novice contact.  Picture a grounded
>Heath DX40, an ungrounded Heath AR2 receiver, and a TR switch
>consisting of a knife switch precariously perched on the operating
>table, and a very nervous Novice trying desperately to pick out one
>weak signal from a mess of QRM on 40 meters.  I grabbed the knife
>switch to change from receive to transmit and ZAP! A nice little RF
>burn.  Needless to say, the next day I grounded everything in the shack.
>
>Steve
>
>On Tuesday 4/25/06 11:34 Phil Scovell wrote:
> >Steve,
> >
> >Those cathode little jolts were sure good about waking you up when you got
> >across those key contacts.  Felt good.
> >
> >Phil.
> >K0NX

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