kCom is or at least was a company in Ohio that made great in-line phone
filters. They have a modular female jack on one end and a pig tale with a
modular male plug on the other. Connect the filter at the phone end and you
should be good to go. I seem to recall checking for KCom online once and
finding them but it's been a while. Lou WA3MIX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:58 PM
Subject: Re: need info
> I'm not sure where you'd get them these days, but there use to be
> companies that sold rf filters for phones.
> 73
> Butch Bussen
> wa0vjr
> open Node 3148
> Las Vegas
>
>
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Junior
> Lolley KG4ITD wrote:
>
>> Steve, I tried ferrite chokes on the phone line to the dsl modem no joy.
>> I even tried a different length of phone line to the modem no joy.
>> I have very little coax left leading to the balun.
>> The g5rv is up 40 foot on the tower.
>> The tower is about 12 to 15 foot from the house.
>>
>>
>> Junior Lolley KG4ITD Liberty County E. C.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
>> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 11:05 AM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: need info
>>
>> Junior,
>>
>> I don't think it's really possible for Joe Average ham to measure the
>> actual
>>
>> resistance to the earth using a regular ohm meter. I think power
>> companies and others who need to get things down to that last fraction
>> of
>> an ohm, use something called a "Megger" to measure actual ground
>> resistance.
>>
>> You seem to be well grounded and maybe should look elsewhere. You
>> mentioned yesterday you were trashing your neighbors DSL. If that is
>> the
>> only RF problem, maybe you should attack it there. Ferrites on the
>> phone
>> line and the wall wart power supply for the DSL modem might help.
>>
>> If you prefer trying to fix it from your end: Do you have a low pass
>> filter
>>
>> in line? If not, maybe borrow one and see if it helps, if you already
>> have
>>
>> one, try removing it and test things. If you have some excess coax in
>> your feed line, try winding a choke balun. 6 or 8 turns around a six
>> inch
>> diameter and held in place with tape or zip ties. If possible, wind
>> right
>> at the place where the coax terminates to the ladder line of your G5RV.
>> You
>>
>> will need roughly 20 feet of extra coax, depending on the type of coax
>> you
>> are using.
>>
>> If there is no excess feed line, just get a length of coax with the
>> proper
>> connectors or adapters and insert it in the feed line. There are chokes,
>> baluns, and line isolators you can buy, but no sense spending money until
>> you are sure it will solve the problem.
>>
>> Good luck, Steve KW3A
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Junior Lolley KG4ITD" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:38 AM
>> Subject: need info
>>
>>
>>> I have been having rf problems on 75 and 80 meters.
>>> I am grounding my system even more.
>>> I added some grounding yesterday and the ohm meter says the reading is
>>> 0.23.
>>> How much more do I need to lower the reading?
>>> Or is this ground alright?
>>> Any help is appreciated.
>>> I am using 4 eight foot ground rods tied together with 6 gauge stranded
>>> copper wire.
>>>
>>>
>>> Junior Lolley KG4ITD Liberty County E. C.
>>>
>>
>>
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