[NLRS] 10 GHz

[aa9il at sbcglobal.net]

Howdy all
Yep similar story - but mine had some fireworks - accidently
put 24v on a rare and expensive 47ghz gunn oscillator that only
needed 5v.  The inline diode glowed like a LED for a fraction
of a second (or an OhNo second).  Amazingly I found a replacement
gunn diode at Microwave Update - lesson learned, D'oh!

Congrats on getting your system up and running.  I have been
in a few emails recently discussing the upcoming 10g contests
in August and September - will wait til after June to send
out more global spam for contest plans.

73 de AA9IL
Mike


--- On Wed, 5/12/10, w0zq at aol.com <w0zq at aol.com> wrote:

> From: w0zq at aol.com <w0zq at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [NLRS] 10 GHz
> To: NLRS at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010, 7:58 AM
> 
> 
> 
> Probably 330 uF, not pF ?   
> 
> Yup, been there, done that.  My very first kit, built
> when I was knee high to a grass hopper, was a Heathkit
> HW100.  I soldered one end of a low level RF drive coax
> in the wrong through-hole on the PCB, missed the right hole
> by about 1/4", and thus I started on a long career of
> learning trouble shooting skills that has served me well in
> all aspects of life.  Build, test, trouble shoot,
> repeat.
> 
> Looking forward to working you on 10368 MHz Joe.
> 
> 73, Jon
> W0ZQ
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Belany <joeb116 at yahoo.com>
> To: Northern Lights Radio Society <>
> Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 9:29 pm
> Subject: [NLRS] 10 GHz
> 
> 
> 
> Unbelievable are the only words I can come up with. 
> When I built my 
> ransverter, I some how installed the 330 pF capacitor which
> energizes the T/R 
> elay in the wrong spot.  Once I properly installed the
> capacitor, my relay came 
> o life!  I feel so dumb....  
> Thanks for all the advice from members on the list....
>  Joe, AI9Z
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