[amsat-bb] Protecting radio from static

["Johann Lochner" <lochner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

We will soon send a remote controllable ground station to SANAE in 
Antarctica.  I was told that high voltages, built up on the antennas 
(there is no proper ground), will blow the front end of the radio if 
it is not properly protected.  Will a 10 k shunt resistor over the 
radio's antenna ports do the job?  We will use an Icom IC-821H.

73 de ZR1CBC, Johann

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  JG Lochner  ESL, Universiteit van Stellenbosch
  e-pos:      lochner@ing.sun.ac.za
  webtuiste:  http://esl.ee.sun.ac.za/~lochner
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