Read and heed, or you'll be sorry. The cold weather causes us to spend more time in the shack and to work on new homebrew project. Some of these projects may involve sensitive, delicate, solid-state components that can be instantly wiped out by that little winter spark from your finger...
Take a look:
http://soldersmoke.blogspot.com/2016/01/an-electro-static-bandaid-to-protect.html
I have to be especially careful this year, because Northern Virginia is now officially in a drought. So that spark-friendly dry winter air is likely to be even dryer this year.
Tube Radios • Re: Regen with constant high frequency squeal - now w/ photos
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Did a brief experiment with decreasing detector drain load R to 50 k and
then 10 k relative to the original 100 k. Of course I had to readjust
regeneration...
4 hours ago