Podcasts Technology Scanner School - Everything you wanted to know about the Scanner Radio Hobby 042 - Electrical and RF Station Grounding

042 - Electrical and RF Station Grounding

Published: Oct. 9, 2018, 8 a.m.

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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.

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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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All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at\\xa0www.scannerschool.com/session42

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