50 watts from a Harvey-Wells TBS50 Bandmaster to a Webster Band Spanner
in a 1953 Plymouth powered by a PE-103 dynamotor caused enough corona on
10m for me that on a dark night parked at the observatory in Griffith
Park, I attracted the attention of several cops with "flames" leaping
from my antenna. First and only time since I've been approached by a
cop with his gun drawn.
Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA CM98lw
Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
One of their frequent problems was that a huge corona discharge
> would often leap off of the tip of the antenna, producing huge
> distortion on the signal.
_______________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Post to: [email protected]
You must be a subscriber to post to the list.
Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.):
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm
Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
