Is this box sealed in epoxy? Why hasnt someone reverse engineered it and published the schematic? If anyone has a bad one send it to me; the least I can do is look at it with a VNA or a GR bridge.
Carl KM1H ----- Original Message ----- From: "Herb Schoenbohm" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:28 PM Subject: Re: Topband: 2 Parallel Beverages > Thanks Mike....This is important information as one of my expensive > DX-Engineering control boxes was made totally > inoperable by ant defecation. I wanted to try and repair the relay > box but DX-E said their schematic was proprietary and they would not let > me see it. So I had no choice but to bridge the connection by > elimination of the relay, the choke and blocking caps, diodes and run > small wires directly from the new F connectors (they had been eaten away > as well) to the toroids. Now these boxes are expensive enough and I know > everything they put their label on is secret but would it not be nice if > they printed that power off suggestion in their operation manual? > > Thanks, I hope those with these boxes read your suggestion. > > Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ > > > > > > On 5/23/2012 3:12 PM, Mike Waters wrote: >> Herb, >> >> Very common problem, with a simple solution. Ants are attracted to the >> magnetic field around energized wires. Turn off the power to your >> Beverages >> whenever you're not using them, and I'll bet the ants disappear. >> >> There ought to be one direction where no power is applied to the coax, >> and >> the relay is not energized. In my case, it's northeast, and that's where >> I >> park my Beverage direction control switch when I'm not using them. >> >> 73, Mike >> www.w0btu.com >> >> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Herb >> Schoenbohm<[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> With DC running into a remote box I always find zillions of ants with >>> their unusual defection all inside >>> sealed boxes. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1424 / Virus Database: 2425/5017 - Release Date: 05/23/12 > _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
