[TowerTalk] Discharge with a dipole

[Jim Lux]

On 5/15/11 11:25 AM, K8RI on TT wrote:
> On 5/15/2011 1:30 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
>> On 5/15/11 8:43 AM, Tommy Alderman wrote:
>>> Sorry - but I just have to ask this: Please explain how the other side of the 'dirty'
>>> insulator finds ground to discharge the static build up?
>>>
>
> One really windy and cold afternoon it started snowing. It was the dry,
> powdery type of snow. I started hearing something making a snapping
>
> This was in Lower Michigan which is not noted for a dry climate.
>
>

Indeed, Michigan isn't what you'd call dry, most of the year, but if 
it's well below freezing, the RH is low.