[ICOM] R7000 dumb question of the day

[Bonddaleena at aol.com]

In a message dated 12/1/2005 2:35:32 PM Eastern  Standard Time, ep at plicht.de 
writes:
On Thursday 01 December 2005 02:05,  Bonddaleena at aol.com wrote:
> It is a 'power through' model. No power  connections available. Obviously,
> they send 12 VDC up the coax to power  it. I assume it would be easy to put
> a "T" connector before the preamp  and supply it with 12 VDC via a small
> choke. 

There are so called  "Bias-T"s aka "DC injector"s on the market which serve 
exactly that purpose  to protect the rig from DC voltage on the RF input. I 
would either carefully  check the schematics and make sure that DC isn't 
harmful or use one of those  Bias-Ts.

73,
Ekki, DF4OR

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Ekki, unfortunately, no one around here sells anything like that. I picked  
up an RS amp today that comes with the DC injector (they do NOT sell them  
separately). It covers from 50 to 2300 Mhz. It works (at 162 Mhz) about the same  
or slightly better than the Channel Master 50 to 900 Mhz unit I had....But not 
 $35 better, Haven't tried it waaaay up there yet.
 
 
thanks for the input....
 
 
ron
 
N4UE
 
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