Does it occur on all bands? Or just one?
You may also want to check the antenna tuner bypass relay.
73
Jim W7RY
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dave Maley <dgmaley@commspeed.net> wrote:
> John;
>
> There is an extremely small reed relay, I believe, on the lo-pass filter
> board. The transmitter gets switched by a pin diode. Rarely do I hear of
> them going bad by getting intermittant. They tend to stick closed, then
> burn up the front-end next time you transmitt. I suppose it could. Try
> switching bandwidth and see if a filter socket is bad first. Good
> hunting.
> Dave
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> > From: "John Barber GW4SKA" <ska@bartg.org.uk>
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> > One of my FT1000Ds has an intermittent receive fault. The gain drops by
> > 60db
> > or more when dekeyed. It will come back to full gain maybe after the next
> > TX/RX or maybe not for some time.
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> > Relay contacts? Any guidance would be appreciated.
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> > Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:32:20 -0800
> > From: James Colville <jimw7ry@gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Yaesu] FT1000D
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> > The FT-1000 uses a reed relay for T/R switching.
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> > 73
> > Jim W7RY
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> > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 6:59 AM, John Barber GW4SKA
> > <ska@bartg.org.uk>wrote:
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> >> One of my FT1000Ds has an intermittent receive fault. The gain drops by
> >> 60db
> >> or more when dekeyed. It will come back to full gain maybe after the
> >> next
> >> TX/RX or maybe not for some time.
> >>
> >> Relay contacts? Any guidance would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> John GW4SKA
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