westend wrote:
Good one, a head scratch-er.
You could capture a ground from an AC device but a user should have a torroid or other filter to keep the nasties at bay. An alternative would be to run the ground back with the antenna wire to capture ground near the radio. How much better was the reception with ground accomplished?
The reception without the antenna gnd wire connected to the aluminum ladder had obvious white noise but you could understand the audio so I had probably a S/N ratio of 5-10 dB. With the gnd wire touching the ladder the white noise was just about undetectable.
