Topband: Receive ant - binocular cores

[Don Kirk]

 Hi Tony,

Was the Binocular Core in an enclosure or out in the open?  I could see ice
being the cause of a shattered Binocular Core (water filling the holes and
then turning to ice).

Just a wild guess.

Don (wd8dsb)

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:19 AM tony.kaz--- via Topband <
topband at contesting.com> wrote:

> I use BN-73-202 cores for my receive antennas - Pennants, BOGs.
>
> Finally getting time to check out my receive antennas. One BOG was very
> low.
> The BOG transformer was broken. I mean it was totally destroyed. The
> largest
> piece was 1/8" long. The primary and secondary wires, #30 were intact and
> neither open or shorted. The wire looked pristine. Any ideas what could do
> that to a ferrite core? Any reason I should change anything other than just
> wire another transformer?
>
> N2TK, Tony
>
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