[SCCC] VHF Antenna Switch

[Dennis Younker NE6I]

Thanks, those appear to be homebrew. Very nice.

 

From: Dino Darling <dino at kx6d.com> 
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 8:42 PM
To: Tree <tree at kkn.net>; Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net>
Cc: SCCC <SCCC at contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [SCCC] VHF Antenna Switch

 

Vacuum Relays. This was made by AC2IQ, as can be seen on his QRZ page.

 

Dino - KX6D

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> on behalf of Tree <tree at kkn.net <mailto:tree at kkn.net> >
Sent: Friday, December 3, 2021 6:30:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [SCCC] VHF Antenna Switch 

 

Switches or relays?

The old school Dow Key switches are pretty good although I can't verify
that they will handle that much power on 2 meters.

Tree

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 5:40 PM Dennis Younker NE6I <NE6I at cox.net
<mailto:NE6I at cox.net> > wrote:

> A gentleman north of us here in California is experiencing failed antenna
> switches when running 1.5 kW with 50% duty cycle on 2 meters, albeit 60
> seconds at a time (IE Q65 mode). Calls to the regular ham radio shops say
> the best switch is an Alpha Delta but he experiences failures on their
> Delta-4 too. The surge protector is not the issue.
>
>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there better switches out there? He
> uses N connectors.
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> --Dennis NE6I