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You can drag a solid gold or silver sheet behind you and it still will not prevent the issue the OP has with his antenna. the problem is that while the coax shield is indeed grounded to the vehicle, the antenna shaft itself has no path to ground. Almost all mobile antenna do have a tapped coil to ground that prevents static from building up HOWEVER the Wilson 2000 does NOT. It is a series fed center loaded antenna with no direct DC path to ground. grounding the mount or the body panels will not help.

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In the first link above the operator installed a TEE connector inline with the coax cable going to the antenna. He then took a standard PL-259 connector with a resistor soldered between the center pin and the shell. The resistance value is not critical and can be anything from several hundred thousand ohms to a million or two. This PL-259 is then screwed into the center tap of the TEE connector providing a high impedance DC path to ground for the static to bleed off thru.

<blockquote data-quote="Captain Kilowatt" data-source="post: 451648" data-attributes="member: 39">You can drag a solid gold or silver sheet behind you and it still will not prevent the issue the OP has with his antenna. the problem is that while the coax shield is indeed grounded to the vehicle, the antenna shaft itself has no path to ground. Almost all mobile antenna do have a tapped coil to ground that prevents static from building up HOWEVER the Wilson 2000 does NOT. It is a series fed center loaded antenna with no direct DC path to ground. grounding the mount or the body panels will not help.<a href="http://oh7ug.net/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=344:stat." target="_blank">Antenna Static Charge Bleeder</a><a href="http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/static-buildup-on-antennas-td7562400.html" target="_blank">Elecraft - static buildup on antennas</a>In the first link above the operator installed a TEE connector inline with the coax cable going to the antenna. He then took a standard PL-259 connector with a resistor soldered between the center pin and the shell. The resistance value is not critical and can be anything from several hundred thousand ohms to a million or two. This PL-259 is then screwed into the center tap of the TEE connector providing a high impedance DC path to ground for the static to bleed off thru.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Kilowatt, post: 451648, member: 39"] You can drag a solid gold or silver sheet behind you and it still will not prevent the issue the OP has with his antenna. the problem is that while the coax shield is indeed grounded to the vehicle, the antenna shaft itself has no path to ground. Almost all mobile antenna do have a tapped coil to ground that prevents static from building up HOWEVER the Wilson 2000 does NOT. It is a series fed center loaded antenna with no direct DC path to ground. grounding the mount or the body panels will not help. [url=http://oh7ug.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=344:stat.]Antenna Static Charge Bleeder[/url] [url=http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/static-buildup-on-antennas-td7562400.html]Elecraft - static buildup on antennas[/url] In the first link above the operator installed a TEE connector inline with the coax cable going to the antenna. He then took a standard PL-259 connector with a resistor soldered between the center pin and the shell. The resistance value is not critical and can be anything from several hundred thousand ohms to a million or two. This PL-259 is then screwed into the center tap of the TEE connector providing a high impedance DC path to ground for the static to bleed off thru. [/QUOTE]

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