ICE lightning arrestors include a static drain. I think the ones now made by Morgan Mfg. and Array Solutions do too, but haven't confirmed that.
Jim N7US On Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:47 PM Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > I believe Elecraft equipment has static drains built in but I always put > a resistor in a PL-259 plugged into one arm of a coax tee with the > antenna on the other arm, on the connector on the radio. It doesn't > have to be precipitating to create "precipitation static" and it won't > take long for those infinitesimal little charges to fill up the input > capacitance on the first RF stage. > > 73, > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > On 5/18/2020 3:08 PM, Clay Autery wrote: > > LOL!!!! > > > > ______________________ > > Clay Autery, KY5G > > (318) 518-1389 > > > > On 05/18/20 14:57, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote: > >> Or you can do what I did with my K3: burn up a static drain resistor on > >> your antenna entrance panel, decide that the smell is coming from the > >> K4, take it completely to pieces to try to find the burned > >> component, and then -- after discovering what actually happened -- put > >> it all back together again. > >> > >> 73, > >> Victor, 4X6GP > >> Rehovot, Israel > >> Formerly K2VCO > >> CWops no. 5 > >> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
