New station setup and grounding problems
A couple of weeks back I rearranged my home office and shack. The new arrangement gets my HF station off of my desk and onto its own shelf, and it's been sitting there receiving FT8 quite happily while I've been programming and testing a WSJT-X UDP receiver for Golang. However, today was my first attempt at operating FT8, and unfortunately, something about the current arrangement is causing my CI-V control to reset every time I transmit. Having CAT control reset on transmit is a killer problem for digital modes. With WSJT-X in particular, the software ends the transmission if CAT resets, so you've lost that entire transmit cycle. I had similar problems in the old desk location with certain bands; for example, I couldn't really operate anything below 40 meters due to CI-V resets, and even on 40m I had to limit my power to keep it reliable. Today's test on 20m was very discouraging. I used to be able to run 20m at 100W if I felt the need (usually used less), but to...