[TowerTalk] Rain drops noise on Yagi (dipole)

[john at kk9a.com]

The rain static solution is in the towertalk archives 1 Apr 1997:
http://lists.contesting.com/_towertalk/1997-04/msg00023.html

John KK9A


Guido Tedeschi wrote:

On our contest station we have an old but good KLM 3 element linear
loaded Yagi for 40m, 20m high, which works fine except for the high rain
drops noise on RX.

Normally we have an average noise floor of S1, but during last CQWW SSB
and CW contest, we suffered rain during nights and the noise on 40m
raised even to S7-8 when the rain was strong.

Is there anything I can do, to avoid or greatly attenuate that noise?

There is a coil across the dipole feed (sometimes called Hairpin), to
match the impedance to 50 ohm, followed by a current balun/choke; what
if I connect the center of the coil to the boom/ground, could this help?

Thanks and 73

Guido, ik2bcp