RadioBanter - View Single Post - Disappearance of Short Wave Time Signals at 5, 10, 15, 20kHz

BDK[_7_] · June 21st 16, 03:17 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

In article ,
says...

analogdial wrote: "can be damaged by static discharge. The input stage gets knocked out
but the radio still has enough gain to get some reception. "

Wouldn't it take EMP or outright dropping the
radio on the floor to cause that sort of damage?
Or just years of gentle, normal usage?

Static common in the winter has been known to blow the input transistor
on a lot of radios. They put diodes across the inputs to protect them,
but they cause problems in some cases with reception, so many times,
they are clipped out of the radio. I've found out they were gone the
hard way, a couple of times.

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