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

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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

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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



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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

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