At 09:21 AM 12/6/02 -0500, N4NT wrote:
>One further suggestion: there is a .01 capacitor on the amplifier's keying
>line, right at the phono jack on the rear panel. This causes a high current
>pulse through the transceiver's relay contacts. I suggest that if you put
>the resistor in series with this line (as Pete appropriately suggested) that
>you move that capacitor so it is on the amplifier end of the resistor and
>not on the transceiver end.
I don't think it's the capacitor that's at fault, but the lack of a "catch"
across the relay. In any case, the easy way to add the reistor is in the
cable, which puts the resistor outside the amp altogether.
73, Pete N4ZR
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