Fw: [Hallicrafters] SX-110A question

[Glen Zook]

I have been "zapped" by a wire antenna that was
supported to a tower that I was climbing at the time. 
Although there was not a storm in the area the wind
was blowing and that caused "static electricity".

During the buildup to the first Gulf War the military
installed wire antennas and hooked them up to their
"brand new" Harris SSB equipment.  After just a few
days of sand blowing across the antennas all of the
receiver "front ends" went "belly up" from the voltage
that was induced by the antennas.  Fortunately,
someone remembered a "stash" of Collins KWM-2A
equipment "stateside" and got that equipment to the
U.S. military.  Tubes are not usually affected by the
voltage from the antennas but transistors are.

I understand that much of the communications during
Dessert Shield and Dessert Storm were conducted using
the Collins equipment.  Harris had to come up with a
"fix" to keep the receivers operational under field
conditions.

Glen, K9STH


--- Bill Gerhold <k2wh at optonline.net> wrote:

For the life of me I have never, ever seen the
sparking across any connectors connected to any
antenna I have ever had.  I know others have said they
have seen this but I have never, even with a full size
160 meter dipole!  I have even put an NE-2 across a
PL-259 lying free during an approaching lightning
storm and nothing.
 
So, I have tried to no avail therefore, it does not
exist.  I know this is an old wives tale and has been
passed down from generation to generation until it has
become a believed phenomenon.


=====
Glen, K9STH

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