Cecil Moore wrote:
Tom Donaly wrote:

Cecil, if you're too chicken to do the experiment, just say so,
I'll understand.


I did the experiment and posted how to do it.
Here it is again: Bring one end of a dipole down close
to the system ground rod. Charge up a capacitor to 12v.
Discharge the cap between the end of the dipole and
the ground rod. That pop you hear is NOT corona.

Most raindrops don't have a little plate and a wire to ground.
In order to mimic a raindrop, Cecil, you'd have to leave the
ground terminal of your capacitor floating. Do that and tell me
what you hear. Anyway, you're still not addressing the real
issue: can you tell whether or not it's raining solely by
listening to the static noise on your antenna?
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH