[Elecraft] Antenna static charge precautions - any tips?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Many antenna systems do not require this protection. They are shunt fed
which provides a direct-current short across the feed line at all times.

Chokes may work fine, but all chokes have some parasitic capacitance across
the windings which means they have a series resonances somewhere across the
RF spectrum. At those points the choke will greatly disturb the impedance
presented to the rig and absorb RF, even to the point of catching fire! 

73, Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of hawley, charles j jr
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 6:29 AM
To: k6dgw at foothill.net; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Antenna static charge precautions - any tips?

Which begs the question...why isn't a 100K across the antenna jack in the
original design?
BTW, I use a choke across the antenna leads.

Chuck, KE9UW
aka Jack, BMW Motorcycles BMWMOA #224