On 12/19/2013 8:13 PM, Bill Frantz wrote: > When I was recently testing some Collins gear, built between 1960 and > 1975 for a local woman who inherited it and wanted to sell it, I noticed > that the RF connections were RCA jacks. The RF output from the > transmitter which was rated 160 watts input to the final amplifier was a > RCA jack. (The manual said it was about 100 watts output.) The only > exception was the high power amp which had RCA for input and N for > output. How things have changed.
When Collins came out with the RCA jacks early in my ham career, it made a very heavy push that only a 50-ohm load be connected to it - lest the jack self-destruct from a standing-wave high voltage! ---- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
