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June 16th 06, 05:13 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

wrote:
10uF capacitor charged to 12 volts = dust particle

Nope, 1uF cap charged to 12 volts = charge.

One charged dust particle = charge.

I've never said I have ever heard a single particle
discharge. It was someone else who said that. I agree
with the 2000 ARRL Handbook when they said it was
"almost continuous". I have certainly heard that
"hash-type noise" get worse with wind speed. I wish
I had made S-meter measurements.

"Precipitation static is an almost continuous hash-type noise
that often accompanies various kinds of precipitation, including
snowfall. Precipitation static is caused by rain drops, snowflakes
or even *wind-blown dust*, transferring a small electrical charge
on contact with an antenna."

But what I am saying certainly makes a lot more sense
than your implication that all particles have exactly
the same charge as all antennas.
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73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp