We have both.

Wayne


> On May 18, 2020, at 4:39 PM, W2xj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Better to use a choke
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> 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/
>>> 
>> 
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