On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 01:45 AM, Stephen Laurence wrote:
I cannot imagine anyone being so absent- minded as to connect any test gear (other than dummy load or a power meter/inline swr meter etc) to ANY transmitter or generator of rf.
You've apparently never used a signal generator from HP or Rohde & Schwarz and likely others.? Many of them have reverse power protection up to 50 watts, some up to 100 watts.? And you've apparently never used a communications service monitor, such as those from IFR, HP, Cushman, Motorola, and others.? Those are generally used for two-way radio service, and it is common to connect a transceiver to one.? Many of those will accept input power up to 100 watts, some as high as 150 watts.? If you had spent your career servicing mobile radios with a service monitor, you wouldn't think anything of keying up into a piece of test equipment.
Of course, you'd learn a? quick lesson the first time (and hopefully last time) you keyed a 100 watt transmitter into your tinySA!
Jim Allyn - N7JA