Hi Butch.

I remember reading about that same technique a number of years ago, and I 
think I saw it in one of the amateur radio magazines.

73, de Lou K2LKK



At 07:58 AM 6/6/2007 -0700, you wrote:
>Yep, grounding is strange.  I'd try ungrounding stuff and see if that
>helps.  I was trying one of those clear speech speakers a friend had here
>once and when I hooked it up to my main power supply, I almost blew the
>thing off of the desk when I hit the ptt.  I grabbed a little 12v wall
>wart and used that instead for the speaker, and was clear as a bell.  You
>just have to try stuff.
>
>One trick I saw a ham use years ago, and yes, it does work, for a long
>ground run take a piece of coax using the center conductor for your ground
>wire.  Bypass each end to the braid with a .01 cap.  I don't know why, but
>keeps the ground from radiating as an antenna.
>73s
>Butch Bussen
>wa0vjr
>
>
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