[Drakelist] T/R Switch

2014-02-16 Thread Bob Loving
Hi, Robert: I have Omron G6A-274P40-DC12 V relays in my TR7s to handle the RF signals. The driver is my version of the KB7Y QSK card from his Communications Quartery Summr 1992 article. The relay is in a DIP socket in the location of the original Drake "clackety-clack" relay. The DIP socket is

[Drakelist] T/R Switch

2014-02-15 Thread Robert Sisco
Back in the seventies, I built a T/R switch into a Heathkit DX-60 using a dual gate FET. It connected with a small capacitor to the input of the PI Network. It worked fast with a Drake 2B, without the harmonics of a Johnson T/R switch. However, the receiver had to be on the same band as the trans