I could tell you stories about static electricity.  Back when we were 
doing cb, many of us ran 8 and a half foot whips.  On a hot dry day, you 
ccould lay the coax connector on the dash or just hold it up in the air, 
not touching the connector, and more than one a second, static would jump 
from center pin to ground.  This, of course, wasn't good for f e t 
transisters in radios, so I started using a t connector at the radio with 
antenna on one side and shorted quarter wave of coax on the other side. 
At 27 meg shorted quarter wave wasn't there, but did provide a dc ground.

Once I was on top of an elevator leg, about a hundred feet tall putting up 
a commercial antenna.  My friend said we better get a move on as clouds 
were building.  I had the half inch hard line just hanging there ready to 
connect.  The antenna was mounted and was a dc bround antenna.  I went to 
hook up the hard line and got a heck of a shock, it was building up static 
charge just hanging there.  I had to take a piece of wire and short it to 
ground before I could screw the connector on the antenna.
73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.