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June 13th 06, 07:56 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
I must have missed it.

:-) Sure you did even after I said it half a dozen times. :-)
You have talked about my transmission line laying on the
rug scorching it so you could not possibly have "missed it".

With any AURAL noise there is always a spark, and
that spark is accompanied by electrical noise or component damage.

Yes, I have said *many* times that my transceiver's power was
off and it was unplugged from the transmission line. You know
the transmission line was laying on my rug because you have
talked about that before.

My understanding was you said the HF noise in the receiver was caused
by the random particles actually striking the antenna. If so, grounding
makes no difference.

I agree and never said otherwise. However, since you
insist, below I indicate how grounding would have made
a difference had I responded in a different way.

If you disagree, explain why.

Let's say that I was stupid enough not to disconnect my
transceiver when I heard the arcing at the coax input and
instead turned the transceiver on. Let's say it didn't
suffer failure.

Would you agree that I would hear RF noise in the transceiver
every time the coax connector arced?

Would you agree that if I shorted the center conductor to
ground that since the outer conductor was already grounded,
the RF noise in the transceiver would decrease?

Why not act mature?

It was you who once again regressed to your terrible-twos
infantile omniscient stage and just couldn't resist
misquoting me. Please don't do that again.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp