[TenTec] Argonaut VI Lost RX/TX on 160/80 Meters

[Reed]

<Failures where they do not do closer than board isolation are concerning to us hams.  We all want to know what and why the failure?>

Yep Stuart, that is my main concern is why this circuit went out. 
Signals dropped from 30 over S9 to S1 after being on for over an hour.  
Lost transmit also on these two bands which share the same circuit in 
the low pass filter board, pre-selector board, but all other bands were 
OK.  I believe the component that acts like a relay is what went out.  
I'm still leaning this was not static.  If it was it sure wasn't much 
because it didn't affect the other bands on RX/TX.

<Sounds like you were doing most things to prevent lightning damage.>
<However, have you had some windy days just before the failure happened?>

I live on a high hill & there is wind on a calm day.  Been that way for 
the 24 years we lived here, just some days are worse than others.  Will 
never know for sure if it was a component or static cause failure. If I 
had this problem on my other rigs, then yeah for sure I would say it was 
static.

73,
Reed  W4JZ