What Don was trying to express was that if you simply add a resistor to your own antenna, you don't need to worry/wonder about whether or not it is included in a particular transceiver. It may be good engineering practice to add it to a transceiver one is designing. However, if you do it yourself on your own antenna(s), you don't need to know or care if was included in the rig by the designer. Of course, it would be good to insure it is in (or added to) all your own radios, so that you can connect them to any antenna with some confidence. 73, Bruce, N1RX > Why be concerned about whether or not each and every transceiver adds a > static bleed resistor across the antenna... Well...perhaps because the addition of an internal high-ohm static bleed resistor at *any* radio set's antenna connection is trivial yet very good engineering practice that has no identifiable adverse effects and that costs essentially nothing. That's an 'all-win/no-lose' situation to this electrical engineer's eyes. :-)
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