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> On May 18, 2020, at 6:47 PM, Fred Jensen <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
