[Elecraft] Snow static, etc. [WAS Re: QRN and the K3: AWESOME!]

[drewko]

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
 


On Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:49:32 -0600, you wrote:

>Man, I am a BELIEVER!
>
>I was calling ZB2FK, who was 539 when all of a sudden the QRN went to 60/S-9. I mean PEGGED. I looked out the window of the shack and saw that we were having a hail storm. We're up at 8400' in the Rockies...I punched the NB and held it, adjusted it a bit and BAM! THE QRN WAS ABSOLUTELY G-O-O-O-O-O-N-E ! 
>I mean gone-gone!!!!
>Never in my 45+ years of hamming have I heard snow static be just ELIMINATED!!
>
>WOW! WHAT A RIG!
>
>THAT WOULD BE THE K3 !!
>
>PAUL
>WY7I
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