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Re: [TowerTalk] Intermittent on Receive Only

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Intermittent on Receive Only
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:24:44 -0700
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On 9/16/2021 1:35 PM, Tony Brock-Fisher via TowerTalk wrote:
I traced it to a bad UHF union in the feedline. Exact same symptom as a bad T/R relay - Rx goes dead after TX, and a little burp of RF usually clears it, until next time...

Was it an Amphenol-branded or surplus MIL spec? Or was it a no-name knockoff? I would suspect the latter.

When I got back on the air in 2003, I stocked my junk box with all sorts of adapters from hamfest vendors, and over the next 5-6 years they caused me no end of problems, most of which were difficult to track down.

I got religion and stocked up on REAL adapters, either MIL-spec surplus or Amphenol parts. Yes, they cost a lot more, but doing brought an end to those problems.

73, Jim K9YC
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