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Ok here goes, I have a Johnson Vilike I and it was working then I was on the
air talking and it was my turn to XMIT so I flipped the Plate switch up and
fire shot out of it and it blew the fuse, I replaced the fuse and the switch
and it was working again....The next day I turned it on and all tubes came
on so after wating a couple of min I flipped the plat up to TX and I noticed
the coax relay switch did not switch

I have always worried about what would happen if the antenna relay failed to
switch when you switched to XMIT. I run a Viking II into a solid-state power
supply that fires a 24VDC antenna relay, and if that PS or the relay didn't get
the message that the Viking's finals were pumping out gobs of RF, the 1000:1
SWR could do nasty things to my final section.

Not to mention my RX, which is usually a Racla RA-17.
73, Mike K. AA1UK

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