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.
Re: Tower question........
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I live in Maine. I'm inland about 40 miles from the coast and we get ice,
snow and wind. I've had a Universal Aluminum 70 footer, 18 inch face, up
for ov...
2 hours ago