[1000mp] Sticky relay? - I suggest not

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Mon, 3 Feb 2003 13:52:55 +0100


My 96-vintage MP did the same for some time but the phenomenon disappeared. 

73,

Zoli HA1AG

> Interesting---yours healed itself, mine got sick again.
> 
> > However mine was not a receiver gain problem.  It also 
> would fix itself
> > if I tapped the front panel ANT A/B pushbutton twice.  This did not
> > change the radio's receive/transmit state and suggested 
> that the problem
> > was a dirty antenna relay contact.
> > 
> > Over the course of time, this problem occurred less 
> > frequently.  I have
> > not had it recur for the last two years or so.  It appears 
> that the dirty
> > relay contacts (if that's what it was) gradually cleaned 
> > themselves after  thousands of operations.
> > 
> > 73, de Earl, K6SE