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Old 07-31-2015, 06:15 PM   #6
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Thanks for suggestions folks. Have not done any ferrite work yet but grounding did make a noticeable improvement ...
Years ago I built a new radio table for the ham shack, as the weight of the equipment was collapsing the old table.

While I had everything apart I installed a single point of reference ground system per the ARRL Radio Amateur Handbook. Noise I had assumed was inherent to radio operations was gone. Really, really quiet.

And then I put up the quad and things got even quieter.
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