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Re: [TowerTalk] Hazards of low soil conductivity

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hazards of low soil conductivity
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 20:10:53 -0800
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On 1/9/2022 3:26 PM, Richard (Rick) Karlquist wrote:
The grounds for these independent systems are subject to considerable voltage differences and will draw considerable current if you try to connect them together.  Note that for this purpose, "ground" and "neutral" are the same circuit.

Engineers from BBC and ABC-TV were active members of the AES Standards Committee, on which I have served for nearly a quarter century. ABC-TV has (or had at that time) major facilities on opposite sides of a major street in Manhattan, and the shields of video tie lines between them saw exactly this problem in a big way. With audio, it could be solved with transformers, but the signal bandwidth was far to great for video.

73, Jim K9YC
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