[TowerTalk] M2 Readout Loosing Pulses ?

[Joe Reisert, W1JR]

Terry,

I had the same problem with 6 conductor line. I guess 60 Hz pickup.

I don't know if capacitance on the line is a problem but I used RG59 
coax on the reed relay line and the problem went away. The RG59 is 
only contacted to the reed and the control box (pins 5 and 6). It is 
not connected to ground.

73,

Joe, W1JR

At 09:06 PM 6/26/2005, W6RU at aol.com wrote:
>It looks like I am having the problem I was warned might happen .... with a
>long run of rotor cable (abt 275 feet of RG-58U for reed switch) I 
>am loosing
>pulse counts and the direction indicator is loosing calibration. Anybody else
>  had this problem and found a fix for it ?
>TNX,
>Terry W6RU
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