On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 11:37 AM, Louis Parascondola wrote:
Many amplifiers have a watch dog circuit that avoids the amp relays from being hot switched. Many amps will delay the closing of the relays until the PTT signal is present and no RF is at the input. ?This is mostly prevalent when using CW. ?The amp will clip the first bit of RF until there is none and then the relays close. ?A 7300 or just about ANY solid state radio without RF delay control will hot switch an SB200,SB220,TL922, Drake etc etc unless the modern radio has an RF delay, the? amp will hot ?switch. ?In?the case of the old open frame relay amps, the TR relay can be mechanically sequenced so that the contacts won’t hot switch by insuring that the output contacts switch?before the amplifier is biased on with the bias switching contact of the relay. The 7300 isn’t necessarily singled out on this regard. ?Use a 20ms RF delay when using old amps with new radios.
The 7300 does have TX RF output delay... an adjustable delay setting from (IIRC) 7ms (default) to ~30ms (In: MENU --> SET --> FUNCTION --> TX DELAY HF).? My Yaesu 101D also has an RF delay, although (interestingly) it is set through the CW function (break-in delay).? Not sure about Kenwood radios...
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73,
~Alan