Well, I'm talking about an RF ground and you want that to stay separate form
all other grounds, 3rd wire in an outlet would be a huge problem as would
water pipe in most cases, again, it would act as an antenna and cause a ton
of problems, take it from some one who learned that the hard way and
couldn't understand why it was worse that way until some one explained it to
me. I'm not in an apartment but I live with my mother in her house and as a
result I'm stuck in the corner of my bedroom because the cellar is taken by
my brother, my only option and my family wants me to do this but I won't, is
I build a radio shack outside away from the house so I can do everything
right. I'll never go that far though, I do alright from where I am. I'll
never run power, I'd trip that circuit breaker, especially in the summer,
I'll never have a good ground up here, but I've heard of people doing a lot
worse.
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From: "Bob Humbert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2005 9:52 PM
Subject: grounds
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> Thanks, John for those wordes of encurriagement. This stuff would have =
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> a lot easier to learn about 15 years ago and yes, I will eventually get =
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> Are you telling me that the water pipe isn't good enough for a ground? =
> If
> it is plastic of course it is not but most codes still call for copper. =
> I
> am assuming that you are living in an apartment but I could be wrong =
> about
> that. I know that from the third floor the ground would be resident for
> some ham frequencies and act as an antenna but I didn't know that the =
> second
> floor posed problems. What really dumfounds me, and of course, I am new =
> and
> know very little electricity, why isn't that round third wire connection =
> in
> all wall plugs as good as you can get? What good is it anyway if it =
> isn't?
> Again; what would you do if you lived in a high rise building on the say
> 60th floor? Would ham radio be completely out of the question? Well, I
> better get back to listening to that tape on the THF6 that I bought from
> Handiham. It's ok but it obviously wasn't made by and actually for a
> totally blind person.
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