[Elecraft] K4 Kit???

[Dave Cole]

What a clever way to install a static drain resistor!  THANK YOU!

73, and thanks,
Dave (NK7Z)
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ARRL Volunteer Examiner
ARRL Technical Specialist
ARRL Asst. Director, NW Division, Technical Resources

On 5/18/20 3:46 PM, Fred Jensen 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!!!!
>>
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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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