Cecil, can you state that if an antenna is in the house one would not
hear static?
I seem to remember that when I was at the top of a mountain in a rain
forest I put the antenna inside the car but the noise was S9 plus....
no communication could get thru
Bearing this in mind static noise was radiated to the antenna was it
not? So why cannot a droplet falling at 32 ft per sec sq not produce
radiation or if it impacts a dielectric transfer a electric charge with
curl? Isnt this lightning on a small scale? What I am getting at I
suppose
is if the antenna is protected from the environment and gets static
noise surely it is a radiaated phenomina. IR antennas have never stated
that their antenna was immune to static!


Cecil Moore wrote:
Deni F5VJC wrote:
So, I guess my verical wire is
quite well insulated and certainly not in contact with charged rain.
We've had particularly heavy rainstorms lately in France and this is
definitely rain or rain induced static., starting and stopping in
sympathy with the rain storms very easy to identify.

Is anything about your antenna in contact with charged
rain? Your noise problem might have the same cause
as lightning, i.e. the global atmospheric electrical
circuit. You might be experiencing simple corona
discharge.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com