[Icom] How to protect Rx Ant input?

[Ekki Plicht]

Am Montag, 3. Juni 2002 03:02 schrieb Larry Benko:
> Gee, looking at the schematic shows a Varistor(R112), a lamp (DS111),
> and back to back diodes to ground (DS101, DS102).  This certainly
> seems like protection of the RX Antenna port. =20
[...]
> What component(s) gave up when you had your problem before?

The lamp DS111.
Sure, this is a nice protection of the more expensive components, but it =
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somewhat awkward to tell your qso partner that after each transmission yo=
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have to stop and repair the Rx input.
Especially in a contest this is not exactly helpful for high qso rates.=20

73,
Ekki, DF4OR