[SignalOne] 8072 and driver damage

[W2AGN]

On 11 Nov 2002 at 17:53, Mark, K5AM wrote:

> 
> At 17:08 2002-11-09,
> W2AGN <w2agn@w2agn.net> wrote:
> >Bad news :-(  I have no drive. Someone suggested the arcing might blow
> >the driver transistor, and I guess it did.
> 
> ------
> 
> The driver and 8072 circuit shown in
> 
> HF Circuits for a Homebrew Transceiver,
> QEX, Nov/Dec, 2001, 20-42.
> 
> prevents driver damage from PA faults. This simple
> two-component protection can easily be added
> to a CX7.
> 
Thanks, Dave. Will see about that. Kind of closing the barn door after 
the horse gets out, though..,..

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