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Re: [TowerTalk] Rain static

To: towertalk reflector <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Rain static
From: doc <kd4e@verizon.net>
Reply-to: kd4e@verizon.net
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:13:00 -0400
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It is just that I am reading that even mobile the static energy
is capable of building up to the point that it is capable of
harming the front end of a rig.  Considering the cost of a modern
rig for HF or VHF/UHF may it not become a "better safe than sorry"
equation or will such devices not really function properly in a
vehicle?

I also wonder about mobile/portable where the rig is in the
parked vehicle but the antenna is a dipole, V, or other
external ground-pole mounted antenna cabled back to the
vehicle.


K4SAV wrote:
>   You definitely need surge protection on your home antennas, not 
> necessarily for precipitation static, but for lightning strikes. It is 
> probably an overkill for mobile antennas.  I base that conclusion from 
> having spent many years operating in central Florida, which included 
> several close lightning strikes, and I have never suffered any damage to 
> my mobile gear.  Although, I suspect with a direct hit everything would 
> be toast.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> doc wrote:
> 
> 
>>Given this discussion I have a question of application, if I may?
>>
>>Does the presence of this static, often capable of gathering to
>>a significant potential, suggest that we need surge protection
>>on both base and mobile gear?

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