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Subject: Re: Orleff on 110V safety on lx200
From: Brandon Jones
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Thu Oct 26 01:52:37 1995

Date sent: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 16:00:46 -0600 (CST)
From: Tom Mote <CSTOM@stmarytx.edu>
Subject: Re: Orleff on 110V safety on lx200
To: mapug@shore.net
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Herb,
I once lost the "front end" of a scanner radio because I didn't disconnect the
antenna. And we didn't even have a thunder storm...just enough high wind to
build up a static charge. Years ago, when I was stationed in Denver, I had a
10 meter antenna on the apatrtment building roof and had a "twin lead" trans-
mission line down to my appartment. One day I finally tracked down the "snap,
snap, snap" ssound that had bugged me for weeks. It was synchronized with
static bursts on the radio and turned out to be a tiny spark from the twin lead
to the window frame. Again, wind induced static electricity. Luckily for my
front end, thsi was before transistors.
Tom

This is why radio amatuers put 100k power resistors between their
aerials and earth.I have had two inch sparks off my aerials from
static rain before now.
Brandon S. Jones