Hi Tony, Was the Binocular Core in an enclosure or out in the open? I could see ice being the cause of a shattered Binocular Core (water filling the holes and then turning to ice).
Just a wild guess. Don (wd8dsb) On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:19 AM tony.kaz--- via Topband < [email protected]> wrote: > I use BN-73-202 cores for my receive antennas - Pennants, BOGs. > > Finally getting time to check out my receive antennas. One BOG was very > low. > The BOG transformer was broken. I mean it was totally destroyed. The > largest > piece was 1/8" long. The primary and secondary wires, #30 were intact and > neither open or shorted. The wire looked pristine. Any ideas what could do > that to a ferrite core? Any reason I should change anything other than just > wire another transformer? > > N2TK, Tony > > _________________ > Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband > Reflector > _________________ Searchable Archives: http://www.contesting.com/_topband - Topband Reflector
