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Re: Topband: Detuning TX ant + QSK

To: jkaufmann@alum.mit.edu, John Kaufmann <john.kaufmann@verizon.net>, Jim Thomson <jim.thom@telus.net>, TopBand List <topband@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: Topband: Detuning TX ant + QSK
From: CUTTER DAVID via Topband <topband@contesting.com>
Reply-to: CUTTER DAVID <d.cutter@ntlworld.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 14:06:50 +0000 (GMT)
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Jim
This will be an issue for me shortly: which part of your tx antenna do you 
switch for de-tuning? I'm building an inverted L on an FCP and I'm looking for 
the most convenient place, physically and RF-wise.
David G3UNA/G6CP

> On 28 November 2018 at 13:18 John Kaufmann <john.kaufmann@verizon.net 
> mailto:john.kaufmann@verizon.net > wrote:
> 
> 
>     Jim,
> 
>     I use Gigavac GH-1 vacuum relays for detuning my TX antennas when 
> receiving. The contact closure/release time is 6 msec. You have to dial in 
> enough QSK delay in your radio so that you don't hot-switch the relays.
> 
>     73, John W1FV
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Topband [mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com 
> mailto:topband-bounces@contesting.com ] On Behalf Of Jim Thomson
>     Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 5:26 AM
>     To: TopBand List
>     Subject: Topband: Detuning TX ant + QSK
> 
>     For you folks that have to de-tune your TX ant, so your dedicated RX ant 
> works correctly,
>     if you also operate qsk, how do you do it ? Are you using a sped up vac 
> relay to de-tune
>     the TX ant ? I don’t see any other way to accomplish that task. Or do you 
> use vox cw ?
> 
>     Jim VE7RF
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