[BC] Dissipating products

[mrfixit@min.midco.net]

> I was at a day -long seminar on lightning protection last January, held by 
> an "expert." He emphatically stated that static dissipators don't work. He 
> also suggested "grounding" the center conductors of your coax and ......
> 
> Mario

Well, he could be right, but didn't tell the whole story, If you ground your 
center conductor, it has to be on a shorted stub, 1/4 wavelength long (which 
then to the RF looks just like an open).

Commonly done on the output of the 802 exciter in an 816 Continental.

Dave Dunsmoor