Everyone's in agreement here. Here are two ares to have checked by an electrician with instruments: The building ground may have deteriorated. Most are steel rods coated with a thin copper plating. The plating may be gone, the ground may no longer be conductive or the connection is damaged. The second: Someone may have replaced an outlet and miswired it. An appliance plugged into it may be sending some current to the ground wire making it hot especially if the building ground is defective. When we were kids we hooked crystal radios between the guide wires of TV antennas and the water pipes. The receive coil on one burned up in our hands. We found that the TV was plugged into the outlet incorrectly causing power to flow out the antenna making the whole antenna system hot - though the TV worked fine. Be careful and call an electrician then let us know how it was resolved. Jerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/attachments/20061214/30d088b6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
