I often wondered if birds on wire antennas can 'feel' High power RF running
through their feet. I tested this question, keying 1KW on 80m to a Discone
at N6IJ. A large crow often alighted on the disk part of the discone, and
immediately flew off it the instant I keyed the TX. A couple of reptitions
of that, and I never saw the crow use the antenna as a landing target. It
seemed that in that case the RF was definitely felt by the crow, but I dont
know if that is generally the case on many antennas, or Frequencies or
birds... any other experiences?
73, DX, de Pat Barthelow AA6EG aa6eg@hotmail.com
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