[Elecraft] To ground or not to ground

[Phil Kane]

On 2/18/2012 3:15 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:

> You guys in the warm climates really have it tough. Here on the Oregon coast
> I'm a few hundred yards from the surf, close enough that it's a constant
> background sound, and several times each winter we experience Cat 1 or 2
> hurricane force winds blowing in off of the ocean, yet I have yet to
> experience salt corrosion on anything. 

I formerly lived about 3 miles inland off the California coast
(Pacifica, San Francisco area) where the fog came in almost every day
and the salt would build up in the "eye" of the dipole insulators.
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73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100   s/n 5402

>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon