My setup is simple and fairly budget-friendly. Everything is bonded to the copper bus bar, and all cabling below the desk is wrapped in or around ferrite beads and toroid rings.
This patch panel has a lot more connectors than I presently need, but I got a good deal on it since MFJ is shutting down . . . and now I have plenty of room to add antennas in the future.
The outlet to the left of the panel was installed by an electrician specifically for this purpose. It’s on a dedicated 20-amp breaker that is shared by no other outlets in my house.
The copper strap is coming from the bus bar and passes to my junction box outside the house, where it is grounded with my lightning arrestors to an 8-foot copper rod, which is in turn bonded to the house’s ground rod at the utility pole.
Thank you. I’ve not been on HF since we started packing up back in May. It’s great to be settled into a new QTH with a dedicated radio space. The scary part was cutting the hole in my house wall!
Great question! The metal sheet is part of the shack’s bonding system. All equipment needs to be bonded together. I highly recommend Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur. The pictures and diagrams of bonding and lightning protection are particularly useful. I think you can get the Kindle version for $10.
Thanks! I really try to buy only gear that I think would absolutely assist in my operations. That is a ClearSpeech noise reduction unit by West Mountain Radio. By adjusting the filter knob, I can quiet the background noise, making signals easier to hear.
If I turn the filter up too much, the signals themselves vanish. So there’s a sweet spot, with the knob at about the 11:00 o’clock position.
