I recall marine transmitters that I sailed with having big resistors from
antenna to ground to prevent static build up. An old hand told me they got
warm when sailing the Indian Ocean.
David
G3UNA
I severely damaged (burned up!) the receive antenna input board of an
FT-1000D once due to excessive input signal from a near-by transmitting
antenna.
Once was enough ... installed small shorting reed relays on all receive
antenna inputs on all radios in my (then) multi-op contest station.
Regarding "St. Elmo's fire" ... Was a marine R/O for some years, and
often saw / heard the entire ship ... especially rigging ... "glow".
Grew up in dry, windy Oklahoma and often heard the snapping of
precipitation static discharging inside rigs.
73! Ken Kopp - K0PP
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