[Elecraft] K4 Kit???

[Jim McDonald]

ICE lightning arrestors include a static drain.  I think the ones now made
by Morgan Mfg. and Array Solutions do too, but haven't confirmed that.

Jim N7US

On Mon, May 18, 2020, 5:47 PM Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:

> 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!!!!
> >
> > ______________________
> > Clay Autery, KY5G
> > (318) 518-1389
> >
> > 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/
>
>