[Mobile-Portable] Screwdriver antenna controller

[Dick Flanagan]

At 08:45 AM 12/5/2005, W6OAL at aol.com wrote:
 >I'd try Pep Boys or Zone auto parts.  As for floating in the breeze they
 >do have a stiff strap for attachment that can be made fast to the axle and
 >keep the rubber in contact with the ground.

Over the years I have heard of two reasons the grounding straps have fallen 
out of favor:

1.  During a lightning storm an automobile has always been a safe haven 
because it's tires don't offer a path to ground.  A strap provides that path.

2.  If you suffer a gasoline or other flammable fluid leak, a spark from a 
strap can ignite it.

These may be urban legends, but they have kept me from utilizing grounding 
straps.

73, Dick
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Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
E-mail: k7vc at arrl.org