Pine Creek Railroad posted:Dave,
What you are advising is that I should just put the antenna on the Legacy Base unit to eliminate any contamination problems. Sounds good to me.
PCRR/Dave
That too.
I was actually more concerned with an un-terminated RF port that expects to see 50 ohms, and/or the uncovered port being susceptible to ESD discharge if it is accidentally touched.
Being a piece of consumer electronics, there is probably some level of protection built in. But the design may also assume the antenna is hooked up.
-Dave