I wouldn't be in a hurry to wave a strong magnet anywhere near radio equipment that contains ferrite or dust cores. When I worked in the mobile radio industry we occasionally came across a mobile that had been carried or stored with a magnetic mount antenna on it... The radio had below specification performance with no obvious fault except the alignment didn't seem right. The fix was to replace the cores. It's over 20 years since I worked on a bench repairing those radios, so I can't recall the type of core.
Old Weller TCP irons with the magnetic switch near the tip are something else to watch... You might get away with it building an Elecraft kit, but I wouldn't risk it. 73 Dave, G4AON K3/100 #80 ------------------------- That doesn't mean I *never* drop something. I have very strong little magnet on a long thin screwdriver-like-shaft that I can "wave" around near the PC board and that almost always causes the part I dropped to jump up onto it even if I couldn't see it. Ron AC7AC ______________________________________________________________ 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
