Well, I managed to blow up my 6 PAK relay system last night. Somehow RF
managed to get to the Band decoder from the ICE filter system while on 10
meters. While transmitting high power on 10m the band decoder was going nuts
and was switching the remote 6 PAK relays to other bands. Kablooey! I assume
that the relay contacts are blown away on the main input relay since the VSWR
is infinite on all bands.
Does anyone on here have the ICE bandpass filters hooked up to a Dunestar band
decoder? What type shielded 6 conductor cable are you using to allow auto Band
pass filter switching??? Now I'll need to send the 6Pak to WX0B for repair and
will have only access to 4 bands at a time. I guess it will be manual band pass
filter switching until I figure out why RF gets into the cable while on 10
meters. Another contest season goes by with still no all band efforts.......73,
N4UK
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