Jimmie D wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
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art wrote:

Cecil, can you state that if an antenna is in the house one would not
hear static?

I can state that if an antenna is in a closed house one
would not hear *precipitation static* which by definition,
involves charged particles. Here's the definition.

http://www.atis.org/tg2k/_precipitation_static.html

But there are lots of other kinds of static. I just heard
on The Discovery Channel that a certain percentage of the
static we hear is left over from the Big Bang that happened
some 12.5 billion years ago. There's lots of static here
in East Texas, mostly from lightning and old power line
equipment. I have never noticed precipitation static in TX
or in CA. But it was overwhelming in the Arizona desert.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com


IMO there seems to be a corellation between how dry the air is before the
rain starts and how much static is generated.



For those interested in more than just what springs fully formed
from Cecil's mouth:

"Detecting the Earth's Electricity" by Shawn Carlson,
Scientific American, July 1999.

"Getting a Charge Out of Rain" by Shawn Carlson
Scientific American, August 1997

Read the articles, build the equipment, use it, and
decide for yourself what's going on.
73,
Tom Donaly, KA6RUH