[Amps] issue with AL-1200 output

Steve Bookout steve at nr4m.com
Sun Jun 25 19:57:39 EDT 2017


Jim,

That's not exactly what I said, but exactly what I intended to do.

Steve


On 6/25/2017 7:41:PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 21:38:05 -0400
> From: Steve Bookout <steve at nr4m.com>
> To: amps at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [Amps] issue with AL-1200 output
>
> <Hello all,
>
> Jim is right  I didn't mention what band.  I guess I was biased toward
> it being the output relay.
>
> It was on 15 meters so I would not expect there to be any padder caps there.
>
> Have been getting ready for field day today, so didn't mess with it.
>
> First thing I'll do when I open it up is to solder across the output relay.
>
> 73 de Steve, NR4M
>
> ##  watch out soldering anything across the output relay.   If a contact is stuck,  welded, bridged ,etc,
> you dont want  1.5 kw back feeding towards the xcvr input relay contacts.
>
> ## U really just  want to temp go from the  load cap...to output connector.... bypassing the output portion of the
> relay altogether.
>
> Jim  VE7RF
>
>
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