Topband: 2 Parallel Beverages

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Is this box sealed in epoxy? Why hasnt someone reverse engineered it and 
published the schematic?
If anyone has a bad one send it to me; the least I can do is look at it with 
a VNA or a GR bridge.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Schoenbohm" <herbs at vitelcom.net>
To: <topband at contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Topband: 2 Parallel Beverages


> Thanks Mike....This is important information as one of my expensive
> DX-Engineering control boxes was made totally
> inoperable by ant  defecation.   I wanted to try and repair the relay
> box but DX-E said their schematic was proprietary and they would not let
> me see it.  So I had no choice but to bridge the connection by
> elimination of the relay, the choke and blocking caps, diodes and run
> small wires directly from the new F connectors (they had been eaten away
> as well) to the toroids. Now these boxes are expensive enough and I know
> everything they put their label on is secret but would it not be nice if
> they printed that power off suggestion in their operation manual?
>
> Thanks, I hope those with these boxes read your suggestion.
>
> Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ
>
>
>
>
>
> On 5/23/2012 3:12 PM, Mike Waters wrote:
>> Herb,
>>
>> Very common problem, with a simple solution. Ants are attracted to the
>> magnetic field around energized wires. Turn off the power to your 
>> Beverages
>> whenever you're not using them, and I'll bet the ants disappear.
>>
>> There ought to be one direction where no power is applied to the coax, 
>> and
>> the relay is not energized. In my case, it's northeast, and that's where 
>> I
>> park my Beverage direction control switch when I'm not using them.
>>
>> 73, Mike
>> www.w0btu.com
>>
>> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Herb 
>> Schoenbohm<herbs at vitelcom.net>wrote:
>>
>>> With DC running into a remote box I always find zillions of ants with
>>> their unusual defection all inside
>>> sealed boxes.
>>>
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