The core loss is caused by a little dyre called in german:
the Stein-Laus (stone louse)
see here for a picture : http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinlaus
You can see one in action here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVKsbeayihI
Sad to say, but there is no hope, it will surely happen again!
73 de Lup
DJ7SW
Jon Zaimes AA1K schrieb:
> With the new season starting to get into swing, I discovered a few days
> ago that my phased JA Beverages (each 935 feet long, spaced 175 feet
> broadside) were not functioning. Since a JA was hearing me today, but I
> couldn't hear him, I figured it was time to get things working.
>
> When I walked the wires this morning I discovered that a tree had busted
> one wire about halfway along its length. The feedpoint transformer on
> the one element looked fine (which happened to be the one with the
> busted wire). The terminations on both looked fine.
>
> But the feedpoint on the other was perplexing. The insulated coil wires
> were still in place, looped just as I had wound them on the BN-202
> binocular core several years ago. But the core itself was gone! I
> scoured the ground below but could find no pieces of the ferrite --
> though since this is in a woods they may have been buried by pine
> needles and leaves.
>
> While I thought a lightning strike might have vaporized the core, I
> would have expected there to also be damage to the wires. But there is
> no evidence of this -- the insulation appears undamaged, no blackness or
> other sign of being "cooked." I did have some minor lightning damage in
> the shack a few months ago -- the first in nearly 12 years at this QTH.
>
> So I'm wondering if any others have had this experience with a BN-202?
>
> I have spare cores so will just wind a pair of new transformers to be
> sure -- and check out the terminations with an ohmmeter too.
>
> 73/Jon AA1K
> Felton, Delaware
> www.aa1k.us
>
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