Hi Richard;

I think what happened was that the HT was getting power from the battery as
well as the power supply.

They had problems with that radio.  When the radio would get power from both
sorces, the radio would get hot and blow out the finals as well as some
diodes.

That's all I have for now.

73 De Anthony W2AJV


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Webb" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 4:05 PM
Subject: Re: radioshack htx-202 usability


> Patrick wrote,
> <Mike's comment snipped>
>    >> I have no idea why it went so high. I had it on a little 2 amp
>    >radio shack
>    >> power supply. I used to control a 2 meter net for about an hour
>    >and a half
>    >> every night, and the repeter was about 100 miles away and the only
>    >radio I
>    >> had was my ht. So I stuck it on my little 3 element klm beem and
>    >the crappy
>    >> power supply, and boy it got hot! So I got my friend to bring
>    >some testing
>    >> gear, and we put three different meters on this thing and it went
>    >up to 11
>    >> watts! Wow!
> WEll, the thing I wonder is:  Did you guys check the vswr?
>
> Consider forward and reflected power and you might have an
> explanation.  SOunds like the swr on that antenna was rather high.
>
> 73 de kb0ruu
>
>
>
> Richard Webb
>
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