On Dec 9, 1:57 pm, Cecil Moore wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
600 volt insulation blocks charge transfer.Lest I be nibbled to death by a flock of angry geese,
this should be, "600 volt insulation blocks *some*
charge transfer." Leaving out the word "some" was
a typo.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Interesting Cecil, my vertical antenna is constucted from a 42 foot
length of coaxial cable using the outer braid as the radiator (but the
inner and outer are shorted together anyway) and this fat vertical
"wire" is suspended inside a telescopic fibre glass pole from
Spiderbeam ( not the conductive type). So, I guess my verical wire is
quite well insulated and certainly not in contact with charged rain.
We've had particularly heavy rainstorms lately in France and this is
definitely rain or rain induced static., starting and stopping in
sympathy with the rain storms very easy to identify.
73, Deni
F5VJC