[AMPS] Drake L4B Improvements or suggestions

[Geurts, Gerard]

Rich wrote:
>-  Relay life should be about 2 million operations, Vic..  .  . PIN diode 
>life is very roughly a couple of moderate lightning storms.  
>cheers
>Rich...
>
>R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K   

Let us assume:

*	50 % TX/RX duty cycle (i.e. a 'run' station in a contest)
*	35 wpm
*	50 units per word ('Paris' standard)
*	14 relay operations per word (based on 'Paris', using full break-in
QSK)
*	35 (wpm) * 14 (operations/word) * 50% * 60 (min/hour) = 14700
operations per hour
*	2 million operations / 14700 operations per hour = 136 hours
*	136 / 24 = 6 days

Vacuum relay life is very roughly about three contest weekends

cheers,

Gerard, AA3ES

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