I know my Omni VII had a noticeable amount of relay noise. It surprised me since after shutting off the Amplifier relay on my Omni V and VI they were completely silent (like my K3).
Rick K6LE On 9/27/2010, at 4:23 , Steve Ellington wrote: > Sir: > To my knowledge, all TenTec rigs that ran 100 watts always used a tiny reed > relay to switch the antenna from xmit to recv. Only their low power rigs > used pin diode switching for this. The little relay was so quiet that you > had to put your ear on the cabinet to hear it however and it caused a lot of > folks to believe none was present. > How about a nice HW-16? No relay! > > Steve > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
