Mighty Favog

That was a thought of mine. Without being silly, he was on a lifetime ban from baseball. But now his lifetime is over.

He grew up in the same neighborhood I did. I had the same teacher he did at the same high school. I even played ball on the field 2 doors from his childhood home that was named after him. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/2024/09/30/pete-rose-mlb-hits-leader-obituary/2808469001/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFoFg5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRINAaacHyZhIyO32_iFmICf5H4Ch9rtZFvTmsD_402bwE_d2xEcqNFvNg_aem_m9-RjiRgqjDNyXpG-oPj4w

Just in time.

The job is done. I ran the 4ga. from the poly-phaser down a few inches under the dirt, then straight out into the yard about 6-7 feet. Then drove the 8-foot ground rod straight down. I then buried the connection between the rod and the 4ga. completely under ground about 4-5 inches. This should be enough to clear the lawn mower if we have a severe lack of rain again and the ground starts to recede. And I don't have to look at it. This was after I had the yard scanned for all utilities (gas, electric, communications, etc). The person that came to scan the ground said to keep away at least 18-inches from the lines. I did as best I could there. Later, a coms-box will be attached to the house where the coax goes into the outside wall for multiple connections if its needed.

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Check PM.

O.K., I'm not discounting either side here, but here is what the guy said that put in the antenna when I showed him your suggestions. "Definitely never ground radio to house neutral. It a unique problem to ham radio. Fine for all else though" "Stereo antennas receive only, they don't transmit. Which is why it's different."

O.K., I went outside this morning to get a better look at things. I called the Ever-Dry people and they said absolutely do not pierce the membrane they have under their gravel/rock layer around the house. That will void the warranty and they will no longer offer the yearly maintenance plan. So going straight down is out of the question. Next I was thinking the water meter was to the right about 10-feet and I could put a clamp around that. Then I looked at it again and it's the natural gas meter. Probably not a good idea there. The water entering the house is about 40-feet away around the corner on the front of the house. Its meter is build into the shutoff valve down by the street another 80-feet away. The circuit breaker box is just on the inside of this wall and pretty easy to access. But do I want to ground the antenna THAT close to the rest of the house's service? With the risk of lightning jumping legs to the rest of the house? So here's my idea, I can dig a trench only a few inches deep parallel to house (not disturbing Ever-Dry) and lay the 8-foot rod horizontal in there while it makes contact with the soil. There is regular dirt/soil on top before the Ever-Dry system starts another foot or so below.

Hey y'all! So, I'm grounding an antenna for a GMRS radio and I'm running up against some problems possibly. The antenna is on top of the house (ranch) with the radio in the basement. The coax between the two has a sacrificial unit that allows the ground wire (I'm using 4 ga.) to extend to the copper grounding rod to be driven into the soil next to the house's foundation. So here's the two things I'm not sure about: I read where the grounding rod should be buried 8-feet deep. But is that for a HAM antenna, a whole-house electric or is this still needed for a GMRS radio? Secondly, our house has an Ever-Dry system for the surrounding rainwater to keep the basement from flooding. But can I drive the 8-foot rod (1/2" dia.) down that far and not disturb the Ever-Dry system? I'm having the PUCO (Public Utilities Commission of Ohio) come out to find most of the buried utilities (water, electric, phone, cable, etc). It's a free service.

A million. Only cause they're that inefficient.

They really are. Many lifetimes ago I used to work for a large department store that sold Bose along with brands like Technics, Pioneer, Carver, Yamaha, Genesis, etc. And Bose was definitely the worst. It was even a bigger turnoff that they were priced so high. About their only deeming value was they look nice as endtables.

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Just something I read just now.

And....no....I'm not dragging my McIntosh gear or Klipsch H.I.P. glass speakers out there for this. By the time we packed everything up to leave the humidity must have been 200% and 65 degrees. Condensation was on EVERYTHING.

Hi 'y'all !! So, this past weekend, my girlfriend, her son & his wife put together and set off a 20-minute fireworks show on the son's dad's country property. Along with the show was a video on a portable projector and screen describing the writing/meaning of our national anthem followed by many musical cuts played to coinside with the fireworks. While I supplied the amp and preamp (Carver C1 and Carver M1.5), the son provided his MTX TP1200 (yuck) speakers that he had since high school 17-years ago. The Carver equipment is probably from about 1983-ish and untouched internally. Here's what happened: We were playing this system nearing max output for the amp for about 4-hours while we set up the show. The source were MP3 files on my Samsung S9 phone. Things were playing fine the whole time but I was still checking the amp for heat. Yes, it was getting warm but nothing you couldn't touch. When it came time for the show, the son connected a laptop that synced the music and video to the show. About 2-minutes into the show the amp goes into clipping mode and stayed there till I turned it down to let the amp reset. It did this 2-more times and each time I turned the volume back to be a little less than where it was before. The third time I just turned down the bass a couple db's to conserve some output energy needed. So, my question is; did the clipping happen because the output caps in the amp are 40+years old or more likely from the laptop's audio output set too high? I want to use this same setup next year and I was already thinking of getting amp refurbished and hot-rodded to 520wpc at https://nelionaudio.com/ . I use this same amp in my office at home but nothing near this kind of play it saw a couple of days ago. For giggles, here's part of the finale with the son's wife's sister practically having an orgasm. Ya see, that family came in from Arizona to Ohio to see this. And Arizona just doesn't have stuff like this, I'm told. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/6itQZSTUmDMEyWxK/?mibextid=jmPrMh