042 - Electrical and RF Station Grounding
Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby · Phil Lichtenberger
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Show Notes
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
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