Flux can provide just the right kind of ionic leakage path that leads to whisky growth and eventual sudden shorts.
Dana On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:23 AM, Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: > > lmcda...@lmceng.com said: > > To make this very long story into a short one, I learned that the HP/ > > Symmetricom 58532A GPS Reference (timing) antennas use a simple patch > > antenna instead of a quadrafilar antenna and that old solder flux > residue > > will attenuate the even amplified GPS signal out of this antenna. > > Flux seems unlikely to produce a sudden failure. > > If flux was the problem, I'd expect it to work poorly when first > installed, > or maybe decay slowly over time as something changed. > > > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.