"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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bad idea. But precipitation static is a number of small
hits each generating a small amount of RF energy. The
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a loop antenna or insulate the antenna from the physical
hits. And in fact, those are the most popular ways of
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

Cecil:

Stated was:

"Interesting Cecil, my vertical antenna is constucted from a 42 foot length
of coaxial cable using the outer braid as the radiator (but the inner and
outer are shorted together anyway) and this fat vertical "wire" is suspended
inside a telescopic fibre glass pole from Spiderbeam ( not the conductive
type). So, I guess my verical wire is quite well insulated and certainly not
in contact with charged rain."

How better could the actual metal radiator (receiving element) be insulated
from the physical striking of rain drops, other than in the nonconductive
fiberglass casing it already resides in? What am I missing?

Warmest regards,
JS