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Gas discharge tubes work fine to dissipate static, but they are nothing but vapor in a direct strike, unless there are giant ones out there, and not just the little thimble sized. We had hundreds of them on control lines and they would light up nicely in a storm with lightning strikes as far as...

In regards to the original post about old stuff still working, there are probably a couple ham operators on this list, but there are quite a few hams that eschew the latest whiz bang knobless black box options and keep vintage stuff going. 1930 radio gear, through the heyday of the ham years...

A high frequency wire dipole antenna installed at 80 feet is fed with a balanced line, at the transmitter feed point is a 1:1 balun that the balanced feeline hooks to on one side, a tuner on the other. The 1:1 balun is 12 parallel turns of #12 around a ferrite core. The input to the balun has...