I can remember when I was a kid having the bottom cover off an ARC5 receiver and
watching the neon bulb across the antenna input blinking when the wind blew
across my dipole. Or disconnecting the PL-259 and having it arc from the center
pin to the shell. As we say in Tucson, "But it's a dry heat."
OTOH, back when I was still testing and writing about ladderline, my late friend
Danny, K6MHE, sent me a piece that he had taken down that had moss growing on
it. It all depends on your point of view. As the developer of the pink poly bag
said in a presentation I attended, "It's hard to get a static charge off a wet cat."
Wes N7WS
On 5/10/2025 1:35 PM, David Gilbert wrote:
There are SO many ways the KIO3/b can be damaged besides lightning damage ...
static electricity in my very dry climate being one of them.
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