[Elecraft] special anouncement

[Dave]

Ouch, cringe... don't put a magnet anywhere near any kind of radio kit...
the magnet may permanently magnetise the ferrite/iron dust cores and your
radio will become very hard of hearing and won't transmit.

When I worked in the two way radio business, we regularly had a certain
brand of radio brought in for poor receive due to "faulty" cores when
someone had placed a magnetic mount antenna on the radio when carrying it.
The fix was to replace the cores.

Dave, G4AON

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Cooper" <wt5y@gt.rr.com>
To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] special anouncement


First of all Id like to put a big JOB WELL DONE to KD5NDB Don Brown for
putting the smoke I let out back into my k2.  I melted R45 so i captured the
smoke in a ziplock bag and sent everything to him and with a wave of the
elecraft magic rf probe wand it was working again!  I even got the privelege
of sitting at a real test bench and putting in my 160m and noise blanker
options when i drove to pick it up.  now to my question and don could
probably help me out on this but here it is, I remember reading in manual
that your not supposed to clip the leads of the mechanical relays, if your
not why? or if u can i would like to know ive been goin over all my boards
with my new clippers.  also would it hurt running a strong magnet over the
boards to pick up any leads that may be trapped under a component or will
that erase or damage a chip installed? it was either that or i was goin to
try a can of compressed air.  trying to avoid smoking my radio again thats
how it happened in the first place i left leads the size of shaqs toenails
on the board.  also saw the new product pictures on the website nice!  hope
the manual has an antenna wiring diagram for the transverters, after the
seeing the pics of the back of them i was a lil confused as to what goes
where.