Rich, you didn't mention the antenna, cable and jumpers. What did you do there?
JIM On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Richard <rra...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > I know its been a long time since I first posed the question on what might > be causing the noise we were experiencing after being hit by lightening. > After many trips to the Technical shop for testing, we replaced the repeater > ( was a vertex 5000, now a Icom ur2000) and are in process of checking out > controllers. The duplexers were my big worry. And yes, it would seem that > concern wasn't unfounded. We started experiencing a degradation on the > receive side of the repeater and then, a leakage from the cans. We had the > duplexers checked out with two different service monitors and found nothing! > The technician who works on duplexers took ours apart and found only a > little bit of carbon, but that was it. they checked out ok. We put them back > into service and the noise was there making communications impossible. > We are now going to replace them with a 6 configuration instead of the four > we have been using. > My question to the list is, besides the noise factor and crackling noise, > is there any other methode of discovering if the can's are bad or not? > Yes, I did and have been losing sleep over this one. > > I also wish to thank Kevin and the group for all their feedback on my > question I put in last summer. You helped more than you know. > > Rich Ranta K8JX > www.w8usa.org > > > -- Jim Cicirello 181 Stevens Street Wellsville, N.Y. 14895 (585)593-4655
