u/jimmyy69420 — reddlx

Ground your base stations

Just a friendly reminder that a ground rod is a critical component to a base station. I moved into a new house a few months ago and I’ve just had my antenna set up temporarily. No grounding on the antenna or power supply or Radio. Went to plug my coax in today and received a mighty zap from the case of the Radio. I haven’t determined if it’s voltage leaking from the power supply or what but ground your stuff lol. I could actually see an arc from the PL 239 connector to the radio

I should probably mention the antenna mounted to an aluminum mast that’s partly buried in the ground so the antenna is most likely grounded that that’s why it only shocks me if I’m holding the coax.

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u/jimmyy69420 — 6 days ago

▲ 6 r/oscilloscope

Just bought this 2445

Picture is a bit fuzzy and from what I can tell it works. I also see that this radio I have must have been hacked up because holy is it flat topping and pinching the negative peaks, looks like Iv got my first project for this scope. Only one slight thing, I have no clue what I’m doin lol

u/jimmyy69420 — 13 days ago

▲ 11 r/amateurradio

RF sampling with wire around coax safe?

Just bought an oscilloscope and saw a few places online you could wrap a wire around your coax and connect the probe to get a safe RF sample from the radio, I’m interested to know what some of my older radios look like. Just wanted to make sure before I blow up my scope

u/jimmyy69420 — 14 days ago