[Elecraft] K4 Kit???

[Fred Jensen]

I believe Elecraft equipment has static drains built in but I always put 
a resistor in a PL-259 plugged into one arm of a coax tee with the 
antenna on the other arm, on the connector on the radio.  It doesn't 
have to be precipitating to create "precipitation static" and it won't 
take long for those infinitesimal little charges to fill up the input 
capacitance on the first RF stage.

73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 5/18/2020 3:08 PM, Clay Autery wrote:
> LOL!!!!
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> On 05/18/20 14:57, Victor Rosenthal 4X6GP wrote:
>> Or you can do what I did with my K3: burn up a static drain resistor on
>> your antenna entrance panel, decide that the smell is coming from the
>> K4, take it completely to pieces to try to find the burned
>> component, and then -- after discovering what actually happened -- put
>> it all back together again.
>>
>> 73,
>> Victor, 4X6GP
>> Rehovot, Israel
>> Formerly K2VCO
>> CWops no. 5
>> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
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