[Lowfer] RLD beacon health report

[Jonathan Jesse]

Brian,
A couple of traces copied at about 6 AM local.  Most I've seen from you yet.

Thanks,
Jon W1JHJ


At 22:28 2/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
>RLD was suffering from a shorted 2n2907.  All the power from the 2n3904 was
>going the easy way back to ground.  It appeared as if I was drawing current
>and all but what I didn't know was that 90% or so of my power was being
>radiated as infra-red.  Anyway all is well now with 20 volts at 50 ma final
>input current.  This is the third 2907 that I have went through in this
>amplifier due to operator stupidity.  Dex had to put his LC filter in to
>keep my signal from blowing up his receiver and there is some kind of red
>glow over my house.   Also my touch lamp will not quit turning on and off
>but wife disagrees with unplugging it...guess I will have to just dump some
>more power into the antenna and blow it up:).
>
>73's
>Brian Helms
>KD4RLD
>www.qsl.net/kd4rld
>
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