[Elecraft] K2 (gasp, a real K2 question) KPA100 idea

[Jferg977 at aol.com]

Hi,
that is exactly the reason I would use a socket.  this K2 lives  on a boat 
and is connected to a 23 foot whip and a seawater grounding system and  when 
it's working is astonishing.  problem is from time to time I forget to  
disconnect antenna when I'm not using radio and it gets fried by static  discharges 
through the antenna system.  casualties are always the 1N5711s  in tthe kat100 
and kpa100 AND U2 in the KPA100. I have to assume that even  though I'm 
installing a ferrite inductor shunt between the antenna lead and  ground, I will still 
occasionally forget to disconnect anenna and so will get to  replace these 
components for the perhaps 5th or 6th time.  pcb's don't  respond well to this 
level of remove and replace cycles.

thanks for the  thought,  
 
73  AI4TO

In a message dated 9/24/2008 4:18:07 A.M. Eastern  Daylight Time, 
n1al at cds1.net writes:
A socket will always be less reliable  than soldering the IC directly to
the board.  You should only do it if  you expect you might have to remove
the IC some day.

Al  N1AL


On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 13:47, Jferg977 at aol.com wrote:
> If  I install an IC socket for U2 on my KPA100, will there be any adverse   
> effects?  Don't ask why I would want to do this.  I would  have to  admit 
to more 
> than the usual stupidity.
>   
> 73   AI4TO    John Ferguson    M/V  Arcadian
> 
> 
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