[Amps] Diagnosing relay problem

Ron Youvan ka4inm at gmail.com
Sun Jan 8 09:00:15 EST 2017


   Vic 4X6GP Rosenthal wrote:

> I have recently been suffering from intermittent attenuation of RX signals through my amplifier, which has a vacuum relay (Jennings RJ1-A) in the output and a HG d'Italia relay from max gain (see here: https://www.mgs4u.com/RF-Microwave/RFrelays_misc.htm) in the input. The problem is that I would like to determine which relay is responsible before taking it apart!
> I can't think of a way, and am considering replacing both of them. Does anyone have an idea?
> Also, has anyone experience with the HG d'Italia relays? I wonder if this was such a good choice. It is fast enough, but I wonder about its lifespan.

   An Ohm meter, input to output then from inner connecting wire to
input and then output.
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                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.



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