[SECC] Blown 6 Pak/ There goes the ARRL SOAB plan....

[n4uk@mindspring.com]

  Well, I managed to blow up my 6 PAK relay system last night. Somehow RF managed to get to the Band decoder from the ICE filter system while on 10 meters. While transmitting high power on 10m the band decoder was going nuts and was switching the remote 6 PAK relays to other bands. Kablooey! I assume that the relay contacts are blown away on the main input relay since the VSWR is infinite on all bands.
Does anyone on here have the ICE bandpass filters hooked up to a Dunestar band decoder? What type shielded 6 conductor cable are you using to allow auto Band pass filter switching??? Now I'll need to send the 6Pak to WX0B for repair and will have only access to 4 bands at a time. I guess it will be manual band pass filter switching until I figure out why RF gets into the cable while on 10 meters. Another contest season goes by with still no all band efforts.......73, N4UK
          

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