Per a service bulletin, this was Kenwood's solution to a well-known relay
problem in the TS430S transceiver.
----- Original Message -----
From: Maurizio Panicara <i4jmy@iol.it>
To: <W8JI@contesting.com>; <amps@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 7:01 AM
Subject: R: [AMPS] Relays hanging up
> Altought looking strange, which is missing here is the lack of a
> micro-arcing between contacts that serves to remove oxidization.
> Once I saw a tricky method where a limited DC current was set to flow
into
> a receiver relay contacts to overcome the oxidization problem.
>
> 73,
> Mauri I4JMY
>
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