Re: [Elecraft] OT: Dry air static

2018-11-02 Thread Gary Smith
8-9 years back I made a beverage system, it went over a marsh. One beverage was 800+' long & the other around 500', I had the proper lengths at the time. I ran PVC piping with a "T" at the top to run the wire through to keep deer from hitting it and to keep it off the Phragmites (swamp

Re: [Elecraft] OT: Dry air static

2018-10-31 Thread Fred VE3FAL
Snow static as well during blizzards do wonders to light up a neon bulb. I used to put one between my long-wire and ground, even wind when it would get a good swing would do the same thing Fred VE3FAL Sent from my iPhone Fred VE3FAL/CIW649 > On Oct 31, 2018, at 19:13, Rose wrote: > > Fred,

[Elecraft] OT: Dry air static

2018-10-31 Thread Rose
Fred, I recall the output capacitor of the pi-net capacitor in my HT-17 rythmatically snapping in response to the charged particles of dust in the dry Oklahoma air building up on the long wire antenna. (;-) 73 ! K0PP kengk...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 31, 2018, 16:42 Fred Jensen Hmmm ... There