[ICOM] Relay contact trivia

[JOE]

Hello Clete,

Speaking of trivia, here's a test.  Do you know what "follow" is?  This is 
a very important characteristic of relay contacts and keeps them clean.

73, Joe, K1ike
Ex step-by-step springbender from many years ago....


At 09:24 AM 7/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>de WB2CPN           2004.07.30
>
>Trivia (a little off) pertaining to the care
>and feeding of relay contacts in ICOM gear:
>At AT&T we placed a small current on cable
>pairs that were used for carrier transmission.
>Any poor connections, (high resistance), were
>made to look like a forward biased diode.
>"Sealing Current" not used on Plain Old
>Telephone pairs because they already had DC
>current on them.   Bye
>
>73  Clete