All, Thanks for the advice.
When I left it yesterday, my feed line coming out of my soffit was run down over a metal roof and then laid a bit over the ground before going up to the antenna. I hadn’t pulled the slack back into the attic yet. It’s good LMR 400 direct burial coax so I didn’t think anything of it. Later this morning, I went into the attic and pulled the slack out such that it no longer goes near the metal roof nor touches the ground. Magically, that fixed the problem. Maybe it jarred some water loose also. If this spurs any thoughts, let me know, otherwise I’ll get some of the wrapping suggested (I had used silicone coax wrap) and rework my connection wrapping. Thanks, Shannon K4SCT On Oct 14, 2022, at 2:28 PM, Roy Storey <rstorey1...@gmail.com> wrote: Shannon, look into the possibility you have gotten water into the feed line. Also check your radio with a dummy load. Good luck, 73 Roy - W5TKZ On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 8:34 AM Shannon Tassin via BVARC <bvarc@bvarc.org<mailto:bvarc@bvarc.org>> wrote: All, I have an OCF 80-10M dipole that I just hung between some trees in a new location. I hung it yesterday (before all of the rain) and was able to tune it on every frequency with my Yeasu FT-991A and make several FT-8 contacts. It seemed to be working very well. This morning, it will not tune on 80, 40, 30,17. Any clues on what is going on? This is the second time I’ve had this issue - last time it wouldn’t tune on 40 & 30 - I thought it had to do with being to close to the house which is why I moved it. I sent it back to the person that made it and they checked it out and sent it back to me. Thanks, Shannon ________________________________________________ Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club BVARC mailing list BVARC@bvarc.org<mailto:BVARC@bvarc.org> http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.bvarc.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fbvarc_bvarc.org&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0298546c72944b358ee208daae1a349e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638013724815584927%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=hGK364TadqUEptUNxbh0Xr%2FQr%2FtIdJ4i%2FgW0L0drXS8%3D&reserved=0> Publicly available archives are available here: https://www.mail-archive.com/bvarc@bvarc.org/<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Fbvarc%40bvarc.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7C%7C0298546c72944b358ee208daae1a349e%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638013724815584927%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=DWtnVyPUKiACq%2BsUoqcOsvgpeYWA9r8uGbpwwgydKVg%3D&reserved=0>
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