[SixClub] radiation storm in progress

[Eric]

Well the company pays me $21 an hour (time and a half over 50') but they 
charge the customer $100 an hour.

On 1/23/2012 4:12 PM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
> I've got the resistors if you will ride the bosun's chair.
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> :-)
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> Don W4DNR
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> Quoting Eric<esuitter at nctv.com>:
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>> Sounds like you need some type of bleeder resistance across your johnny
>> balls to allow the static buildup to discharge to ground.
>> Eric N7XCF
>>
>> On 1/23/2012 2:19 PM, donroden at hiwaay.net wrote:
>>> I'm fighting a static problem on a 330 foot broadcast tower.
>>>
>>> When the humidity get below 20%, and the wind is blowing, all the
>>> johnny balls that break up the guy wires arc over and take out $$$
>>> FETs in the output stage.
>>>
>>> We estimate close to half million volts required to arc over.
>>>
>>>
>>> Don W4DNR
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>>> Quoting "qrv at kd4e.com"<qrv at kd4e.com>:
>>>
>>>> Any cause to think that tall verticals, longwire and long dipoles,
>>>> may be more-vulnerable to static surges ... and perhaps should be
>>>> disconnected?
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