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June 19th 06, 04:21 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna

Cecil Moore wrote:
wrote:

By the way Cecil, I'm absolutely serious.

So am I, Tom. For the readers who haven't been keeping up
with this thread, let me relate exactly what you are serious
about.

I had a severe clear-sky charged-particle problem in
the Arizona desert. My G5RV was arcing at my transceiver's
coax connector about once per minute. I wouldn't have been
able to hear any signals through the arcing noise.

40m is my favorite band. I installed a 100 uH choke across
the feedpoint. It eliminated the arcing and resulted in
readable signals on 40m. I don't know what the signal to
noise ratio was but I could hear and work other hams during
the charged particle wind storms so the S/N ratio obviously
improved.

You asserted that such is impossible but it actually happened
to me about 15 years ago in the Arizona desert. Anything that
eliminates the charged particle arcing more than obviously
improves the S/N ratio.

Here's a challenge for you, Tom. Set up an arc generator
across your receiver terminals in parallel with your antenna.
Measure the S/N ratio. Turn off the arc generator. If the
S/N ratio doesn't improve, I will adopt your Corona God
religion.

There's no such thing as a clear-sky charged-particle problem, either
in the Arizona desert or anywhere else. Naming isn't proving. You're
going to have people blaming their arcing problems on pure fantasy.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH