Also, be careful if your antenna is disconnected but not grounded. You can get a painful jolt touching the feeder if it has collected rain/hail/sleet/snow static. It's not uncommon to see sparks jump from the center pin to the shield across a PL259 or similar connector under those conditions.
Suddenly connecting such a highly-charged antenna may well over-stress the protection circuits in the rig as well. Antennas should be grounded when not in use. Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- drewko wrote: > I've been wondering about potential receiver damage from rain and snow > static. I think if my QRN level from snow static went to +60 I would > probably shut the rig off and disconnect it. Is such damage a real > threat? If so, is there a certain safe QRN limit that should be > observed, say s9+60 for 30 minutes, or whatever? > > 73, > Drew > AF2Z > There's a bleeder resistor at the K3 front end, so this shouldn't be a problem. 73 Jon LA4RT ______________________________________________________________ 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
