Theory and practice are sometimes at odds with each other. A single point ground is an excellent idea, in theory. But when the shack is located on the opposite side of the house from the house ground, one does what one can do.
I have an 8' ground rod, beat into the ground so that only about 10" shows. All shack grounds are tied to it. That includes radios as well as antennas. The loose connection was from the box holding the lightning protection devices and the ground rod. Tightening that up seems to have worked. I realize that's not the best of worlds, but life is a compromise. I would love to have a 130' tower with mono-banders, but life and property restrictions dictate I live with verticals. Otherwise, I would go back to stamp collecting. 73, Dick, W1KSZ Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: Black Michael via wsjt-devel <wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 7:54 AM To: WSJT software development Cc: Black Michael Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Error in Sound Output Message When you say you found a loose connection outside sounds like you have your own ground rod? Is it also tied to the house ground like it should be? http://k9yc.com/GroundingAndAudio.pdf de Mike W9MDB On Monday, April 8, 2019, 9:41:41 AM CDT, Richard Solomon <w1...@outlook.com> wrote: I found a loose ground connection outside, tightened it back up and the problem has not repeated itself, yet !! Thanks for all the replies, 73, Dick, W1KSZ Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: Paul Randall <paulfrand...@hotmail.com> Sent: Monday, April 8, 2019 1:39 AM To: WSJT software development Subject: Re: [wsjt-devel] Error in Sound Output Message Hi, as others have suggested, almost certain reason for this is during the 1 – 2 seconds of transmit that you got, your RF took out the USB link between sound card and PC. I can generate this problem on demand just by trying to operate on 160m where my loop antenna is extreme high impedance and the rig gets “hot” to RF. Quit WSJT, unplug the USB interface and replug after a few moments, restart WSJT and if necessary use “menu-settings-audio” to direct audio connections back to the USB interface should get everything working on Rx. Of course the RFI problem on TX still needs to be fixed. Check all your grounding and run an antenna analyser to see if anything changed out there. As suggested, moving stuff around, a bad ground connection, even wind and rain can push a marginal system over the edge. Working portable as VK2/G3NJV with a simple wire antenna, the dog used to run over and move the tuned radial wires lying on the grass and up would pop this problem even though everything worked fine just before. Cheers 73s Paul G3NJV ________________________________ From: Richard Solomon <w1...@outlook.com> Sent: Saturday, April 6, 2019 3:30:32 PM To: wsjt-devel Subject: [wsjt-devel] Error in Sound Output Message Everything was working fine yesterday, turned the rig on tday, tried to call a station, Transmit was aborted about 1-2 seconds into the call. This error message popped up: [cid:VtQ2epTm9sE2ZwS6fNg6] Any idea on the cause ? Tnx, Dick, W1KSZ Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
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