[VHFcontesting] Nuking

Dan Evans dan.evans at insightbb.com
Wed May 21 16:54:16 EDT 2008


I have had a couple of the "original" Mirage amps that have served me well.

In my current one, the pre-amp mysteriously self destructed, but it 
doesn't really bother me so I haven't bothered to fix it.

73
Dan
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Dexter McIntyre W4DEX wrote:
> I have three Mirage amps that have been well used an abused for many 
> years.  The only trouble I've had and still have is a bad contact on the 
> T/R relay.  The contact will occasionally be open on the receive path 
> after a transmission.  The amp was once used for a packet node so I sure 
> can't complain about it having a worn out relay.  All of these amps are 
> probably 20 years old so maybe newer ones aren't the same design.
>
> Dex


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