Lee, Everything may be grounded, but that is a safety ground, and it certainly cannot be relied on for an RF ground. It sounds like things in your shack are hot with RF. The place to correct that is at the antennas - the feedline should not be carrying common mode RF into the shack - i.e. all the RF flowing on the feedlines should be balanced and no radiation should occur. That should be true for both coax and balanced line.
To repeat, if you have RF in the shack problems, get the RF balanced at the antenna feedpoint, and if the feedline is coax, use an effective balun to keep the common mode current off the outside of the coax. 73, Don W3FPR Lee Buller wrote: > Ok guys.... > > Everything is grounded....but when you are pushing legal limit power in a > contest, I have blown up my USB to Serial Converter. It just doesn't work > after the RF does its magic to it. That is why I went to a serial > connection. So, what have people experienced with their USB Converters when > running the big amp? > > Lee - K0WA > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
