Hi Phil
>A good point was made today re the Dow-Key relays
>found in Harris equipment et al
The failure mode for the Dow-Key antenna relay in my
RF-103 was caused by using a modern transceiver that
burned the gold contacts when the 12 Ms close time was
finally reached.
I also repaired a friends 103 where the contacts were
completely destroyed. It was driven by a TS-440 and SSB
only.
But you are exactly correct about moisture. Dow-key relays
in stack phasing boxes on towers are awful. That idea only
lasted one season.
73 Rich KL7RA
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