[TowerTalk] Rain static

[David Robbins K1TTT]

> 
> It isn't droplets hitting the antenna that gradually build
> the charge or make the noise, it is them hitting
> everything...of which the antenna is just a tiny part of a
> big exchange.
> 

droplets aren't even needed, as I pointed out it is common for
'precipitation' static to occur even without rain or snow.  All it takes is
the increase in electric field gradient under a charged cloud.



David Robbins K1TTT
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