[Boatanchors] TCS Tx & Rx ... CORRECTED

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi John,

Yes. I think there was a burp there somewhere, too.

The experiences everybody else is talking about are far counter to mine.
It occurred to me that the relays you are all talking about may be
substantially larger than the ones I used. Those were a step up from the
little "reed" relays. I think TCS is some of the miltary surplus gear
and the relays were probably heavy enough to take a direct hit from a
medium machine gun or something. Like my RAK that was designed to live
with heavy naval guns on a battleship. The difference in relays that are
probably in those radios and the ones I used to key a radio (that
already had a keying circuit) is probably night and day. Somebody else
made me think about that when they said those relays were not good past
something (did he say 20 WPM?) that I easily exceeded.

And soon thereafter I switched my Ranger from Standby to transmit and
the external antenna relay made one awful clunk! The light came on.

73,

Bill  KU8H