[Hallicrafters] RE: Antennas and static charge

[Rich Oliver]

I have an antique (c. 1920) neon lightning arrestor for balanced line. 
It is made of clear glass in the shape of a WWI battleship.  The lamps 
are positioned about where the fore and aft batteries would be so it 
appears to be firing broadsides when working.  Pretty clever!

73, Rich

Horace W. Hall wrote:
>> I re-enacted Ben Franklin's kite experiment for the benefit of my mom
> 
> and dad one evening during a thunderstorm.. <
> 
> About the same young age I had a vertical on the roof & one evening was
> cleaning up the radio/work room with my brother. After a while of listening
> to an annoying, snapping sound every few seconds, which I first thought was
> my brother snapping his fingers just to aggravate me, I traced the sound to
> the coax from the vertical which I'd laid on the floor while moving some
> radios around. The one end of the UHF connecter was arcing over like a big
> spark plug gap. With hair standing on end (fright, not static) I proceded
> to disconnect the cable where it entered the house & tossed the end out
> into to yard. Fortunately, nothing more exciting ensued.
> --Wayne
>   WB4OGM 
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