I make sure my connectors are tight once in a while, I can't say how often, 
more an if I think about it thing or if something's drastically different 
from the day before be it receive, SWR, what ever though luckily SWR is one 
I only had go flakey on me once and a coax, naturally the hardest one to 
change from the balun through the attic vent where I lived at the time, then 
down in to the room and around the room, had gone bad. I'm not sure what 
happened, replacing both connectors didn't work, nothing obvious I ended up 
tossing the whole 40 foot run. Too much playing around with connectors can 
make them go bad as well. Unfortunately I have a cat who likes to go over my 
TS-2000, across the back of the desk to a window and I'm sure someday that 
will cause something to go bad on me but hopefully not for a while. He did 
unplug the power connector for my packet radio the other day though, not 
good for a packet station people expect to be up 24/7 to be down for 10 
hours but I made sure that wouldn't happen again.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: Strange TS590 Behavior


> Man, Tom, you check your connectors every month?  I'm definitely not
> obsessive-compulsive or anal about them, I usually fire up and do a quick
> check to make sure my SWR is near normal.  Then, I just have a QSO.
>
> My Astron RS35 is 27 years old, and except when I was stupid and blew the
> power regulating transistor, I've never had a problem with it.  It 
> supplies
> 13.1 volts to the 590.