[MRCA] T-195 Slow Semi-Break In Turnaround Time on CW

[Christopher Bowne]

I ran my T-195 this weekend on the AM and CW Old Military Radio Nets for the 
first time after at least a year. Although the problem did not occur on push to 
talk voice, I noticed that the receiver would be deaf for about 5 seconds after 
I stopped keying on CW.  Eventually whatever relay that was hanging would shift, 
and the the antenna was shifted to the R-392.  This was not a random thing, did 
it every time I stopped keying.  I could bring the receiver to life immediately 
by shifting the mode switch back to STANDBY from CW.  Kind if a pain trying to 
check into the CW net, could not tell if Ted, W3PWW had heard my check in call.  
Ted said that his T-195 was doing the same thing.  I remember this hang time 
delay developing  a few years ago when I was regularly calling the net as NCS 
using the T-195, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it for that 
purpose.  It did not hang like described when I first started using the T-195 
years ago, seemed to have a pretty fast turnaround, not QSK to be sure, but what 
you would expect for semi-break in keying.  Is there an adjustment pot that 
defines the transmit hang time on CW that can be adjusted, or is this due to a 
mechanical problem with a relay hanging?

73 de Chris, AJ1G 
Stonington, CT
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