[TenTec] Front End Protection

[Jack Parker]

At 02:01 PM 10/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>Yes wind induced static can zap a front end of a receiver, one list member of
>another list reported such just last month.
>
>Disconnect whenever you are not on the air, and move the lead in well away
>from the radio desk surface is the best policy, and ground the antenna
leadins
>to your main protective ground entry.
>
>Stuart K5KVH

Wind induced static can be very nasty. As chief engineer of KTKT-AM in
Tucson, whenever we had a wind storm, accompanied by blowing sand, you
could stand outside the studio building, in the middle of the 5-tower
directional array, and listen to the static discharge across the guy-wire
insulators. I don't know what voltage levels were involved, but these
insulators were hefty devices with a considerable spacing between upper and
lower guy-wire loops! I'm certain that any comparable voltages would do
substantial damage to any transceiver or receiver front-end!

Jack, W7PW

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