[Lowfer] WC2XSR/13 rain problems today

[John Davis]

>Yea wait 'till we get on 136 and find out more interesting things with a
bit
>more power.

I hope not!  The limit proposed for that band is 100W TPO, or 6db less than
the WC2XSR license allows.

>Do you think the loops will give us all the grief that the
>verticals do with the higher power???


Probably just different types of grief.  No free lunches, you know.  :-)

I'm really intrigued about one part of Ralph's message, though:

>> If the droplet
>>reached critical size, and just before it fell away from the gap leg, if
>>the transmitter turned on at that moment, the high electric field would
>>attract the water droplet into the narrow portion of the gap itself.


I've seen static electric fields do this, of course, but has anyone ever
seen an account before of an electric field oscillating at an RF rate
attracting water droplets?  Ralph, is there some circumstance which could
account for a high DC voltage being present on the antenna at that same
time?

73,
John