042 - Electrical and RF Station Grounding

Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby - A podcast by Phil Lichtenberger

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Electrical and RF Grounding - a simple solution for a common problem. RF Grounding is more important in a transmitting environment than a receiving environment, but scanner listeners can still benefit from grounding their station. By Grounding your receive station, you may find that you've increased your scanner's sensitivity and eliminated some RF noise.   In this session we discuss: RF Ground Loops Grounding best practices Single Point Ground (SPG) The differences between Copper Wire Flat copper braid Flat copper strapping The Skin Effect   All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at www.scannerschool.com/session42   Please support the Scanner School podcast.  Visit www.scannerschool.com/support to see how you can help us.  Some of the ways you can support us won't cost you any additional money!  

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