[TowerTalk] Rain drops noise on Yagi (dipole)

[Guido Tedeschi]

Different experience here: we have a 5 elements for 10m over the "noisy" 
KLM 3 elements for 40m, as you can see on this picture:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=11LkAV5VeVCLMMzL60scciRnX1U0B-2Ul

Thanks and 73

Guido, ik2bcp


Il 05/12/2018 18:50, Jim Thomson ha scritto:
> ##  Its always the very top  yagi,  regardless of how many yagis on the same tower.   The lower yagis never seem to be affected.
> Perhaps the..fix is to  install the smallest yagi you can get away with..at the very top of the tower..or mast above the tower...
> that will kill the rain and or  wind static..or st elmos  fire..or whatever the heck is actually causing it.   The top ant does not need coax either.
> Perhaps something like a 1-2-3 el 10m yagi..or  TA-32, TA-33, or just enough aluminum  at the very top to kill the noise to the actual
> yagis below it, that are  being used.
>
> ##  I have heard the same story at least a doz times now..even if they are  DC  grounded eles... like a Hy gain  204BA. .
> Its always the very top yagi that gets the noise..and never the lower yagis.
> Some type  of sacrificial top...yagi /  al  may well do the trick.
>
> Jim   VE7RF