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At least the arc has burnt the cobwebs ;-)

Hope the stainless steel tubing (with the laboratory clamps) in the 
background are not the intake of an air-pollution monitor. If it was, it 
may ring an alarm due to a sudden NOx increase..

Nice pictures with the Nikon D700 !

Cheers,
    Wolf .

Am 06.11.2011 20:51, schrieb Stefan Schäfer:
> Seems i need some improvements on the spark gap of my LF antenna. 
> Depending on the humidity and wind there is some arcing during the 
> transmissions. These look very fascinating i find. Anyway i have to 
> add a spherical electrode there and increase the gap distance, 
> especially for VLF ;-)
>
> A working colleague of me is a (semi) proffessional photographer 
> (hobby) and i asked him to take some nice pictures. He has an 
> excellent equipment i find but he means he should have taken a 
> different lens for these pictures. Anyway, i really like them.
> When arcing at the ends of a LF antenna is discussed, sometimes a 
> picture can help a newcomer what is meant. Here are some more 
> examples, in high resolution (abt. 3 MB each)
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/20111106-19h54m07s-FF7_8461.jpg
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/20111106-19h58m31s-FF7_8466.jpg
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/20111106-20h02m13s-FF7_8470.jpg
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19882028/LF/20111106-20h03m58s-FF7_8472.jpg
>
> 73, Stefan/DK7FC
>
>
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