[Kenwood] Lightning protection wire antennas WA8OPR

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 14 May 2014 at 17:14, Fern wrote:

> Now if your antennas are fed with a balun, you will not have this static build
> up problem. I used to have a mosley which was direct fed with coax and had a lot
> of static build up. I installed a 1:1 balun at the feed point and that fixed
> that problem. 73 from Fern VE7GZ

Hello, Fern:

Nice to see you again.

Yes. I would suspect that your balun enabled a DC connection between your 
antenna and ground.

Maybe not. In any case, it worked.

Ken W7EKB