[Hallicrafters] RE: Antennas and static charge

[Bruce Wright]

Dear Fellow List Members...

As a youth who was a wide-eyed Novice licensee in 1959, I re-enacted Ben 
Franklin's kite experiment for the benefit of my mom and dad one evening 
during a thunderstorm...It was before I had erected a 40m dipole that I fed 
a long wire thru an antenna matcher from my BC-459A...With the wire 
disconnected from the transmitter an NE-2 was clipped between the feedline 
and the ground post on the tuner and with the lights out in my bedroom shack 
the NE-2 did produce several visible emissions to the astonishment of my 
mother...After the "show" and as they left the room, I recall her asking my 
father if he thought the antenna was dangerous and a fire hazard...I later 
assured her that a knife switch mounted to the board in the window was there 
to ground the antenna as a safety measure when I wasn't operating.

Bruce
WC5CW


>Message: 11
>Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:55:47 -0500
>From: "Anthony W. DePrato" <wa4jqs at mikrotec.com>
>Subject: [Hallicrafters] SX-110A question
>To: Bill Gerhold <k2wh at optonline.net>,	"'Philip Atchley'"
>	<beaconeer at sbcglobal.net>,	"'Mark Bell'" <bell at blazenet.net>,
>	hallicrafters at mailman.qth.net
>Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20050124205347.02587108 at pop.mikrotec.com>
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> >
> >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.
> >
> >Hi Hi.
> >
> >K2WH
>
>in the 60's i had a trap dipole 108 ft long between a tree and a 50 ft tv
>push up pole on the roof of my parents house. seen the little blue arc to
>ground many times. woke me up a few times.
>73 Tony wa4jqs
>
>
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