[Amps] IC-718 and AL-811: Icom manual misleading, interface necessary according to Icom technician

[Bill Turner]

On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 15:21:12 -0500, Will Matney wrote:

>I believe if it were me, and I were building transceivers, that I would  
>make sure it would switch everything out there, including the oldies.
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Agreed. The one unknown is the possible inductive spike when the amp
relay is unkeyed. A bulletproof high voltage/high current transistor
(instead of a relay) with appropriate protection would have saved ICOM
and us a lot of trouble.

They apparently forgot the six P's of engineering: Perfect Planning
Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

-- 
Bill, W6WRT



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