[Elecraft] K4 Kit???

[Fred Jensen]

Not in my experience.  Chokes are inductors and, together with stray 
capacitance, can create unwanted resonances and accompanying 
parasitics.  Resistors just bleed the charge off an otherwise nearly 
infinite input impedance which is the whole idea in the first place.

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

**"Nearly infinite" is not a really good term mathematically, but it's 
short and conveys the idea

On 5/18/2020 4:39 PM, W2xj wrote:
> Better to use a choke
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On May 18, 2020, at 6:47 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/
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