SB-201/200 no output on any band

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 19 Oct 2008 at 7:39, RAY FRIESS wrote:

> One of the most common problems is the antenna relay. Check the
> contacts on that and clean them. A friend of mine had an sb-200 that
> showed no output. He went through all the same rigamarole you did and
> still nothing. When he finally check the antenna relay, he found a bad
> contact on it. Not making contact when it closed. He replaced the
> relay and everything was fine.
> 
> I had a similar problem in mine. I was not receiving anything on my
> receiver when it the receive mode. I cleaned the antenna relay
> contacts in the amplifier and everything came to life.

Ah, yes. The most excellent KISS principle. Good going, 
Ray. :-)

That should have been amongst the FIRST things to be 
checked.

Ken W7EKB

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