[TowerTalk] Discharge with a dipole

[K8RI on TT]

On 5/15/2011 4:22 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> 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.

Winter Indoors is very low with most of us running humidifiers.
I put about 10 gallons a day into my shop.  I don't think the house 
takes quite that much.

73

Roger (K8RI)
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