At 04:04 PM 10/8/98 CDT, you wrote:
>
>This is kinda directed to Scott at TT, but I though it may interest the
>whole group. First, a little history. Going back a few weeks ago, I asked
>this group about protection of the auxiliary antenna input from a loop. A
>bunch of emails bounced around, and Scott from TT mentioned that protection
>of the aux input is necessary. He also mentioned that before you connect
>any antenna up to the radio, you should ground the hot lead of the coax to
>drain off any lingering charges since Scott had a blown front end from this
>very thing. Now comes the confusing part.
Hi Rick:
Acutally, what can happen is not loss of the front end of the
receiver. The diodes at the AUX RX jack to prevent the front end
from being cooked can blow. I wanted to point out that the blowing
of these diodes is exactly what is supposed to happen with the
transceiver if large amounts of RF or a static discharge comes back
through the AUX RX antenna jack. They are there for protection and
this is not a deficiency in the transceiver itself.
Scott Robbins, W4PA
Amateur Radio Product Manager, Ten-Tec
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Ten-Tec, Inc., 1185 Dolly Parton Pkwy, Sevierville, TN 37862 USA
Contact Mon-Fri Eastern: Office/Tech (423) 453-7172 9 am-5 pm.
Repair (423) 428-0364 8-4. Sales (800) 833-7373 9 am-5:30 pm.
Fax (423) 428-4483 24 hrs. Visit us at <http://www.tentec.com>
--->--->---> Please note: E-mail <sales@tentec.com> for sales
and general product info only. We presently do not offer
repair, parts, or kit building tech support by electronic mail,
please telephone.
Ten-Tec manufactures amateur radio equipment, military and com-
mercial use HF radio equipment, custom aluminum and steel
enclosures and has an on-premises, fully equipped tool and die
facility supplying metal and plastic injection mold industries.
Potential tool and die, custom enclosure or communications
electronics customer? Contact us with your needs.
--
FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/tentecfaq.htm
Submissions: tentec@contesting.com
Administrative requests: tentec-REQUEST@contesting.com
Problems: owner-tentec@contesting.com
Search: http://www.contesting.com/km9p/search.htm
|