Magnus Yes indeed will be working tonight. At least the preamp.Need to figure out what was leaking yet. A bit messy but no real damage and it uses nothing but simple parts. It also allowed water into the coax so will need to chop 3ft off and put a new connector on. Minor stuff. Regards Paul.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Magnus Danielson < mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote: > Paul. > > > On 05/14/2012 07:20 PM, paul swed wrote: > >> Thanks everyone yesterday for your wwvb comment. I now know why the wwvb >> signal droped to -120db. >> Seems that over 4 years water slowly built up in the preamp housing. Water >> and rust do make fine conductors. >> > > I had the same problem with a GPS antenna at work. Somebody had put the > manufactures label over the porus plug that should have vented out any > water... but it didn't so I had too high water-level inside the antenna. > > Hope you get your amplifier operational again. > > Cheers, > Magnus > > ______________________________**_________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/** > mailman/listinfo/time-nuts<https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts> > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.