Not in my experience. Chokes are inductors and, together with stray
capacitance, can create unwanted resonances and accompanying
parasitics. Resistors just bleed the charge off an otherwise nearly
infinite input impedance which is the whole idea in the first place.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
**"Nearly infinite" is not a really good term mathematically, but it's
short and conveys the idea
On 5/18/2020 4:39 PM, W2xj 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!!!!
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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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