Dear Group, I apparently have a bigger problem with RF in the shack and it has nothing to do with the loop.
I have been running a successful shack on the second floor of my house and as of Friday last week when I installed the loop I have had nothing but RF problems. I thought on Saturday when I removed the ladder line from the shack and coiled it up in the tree far away from the shack that I would be ok and everything seemed to be ok. Anyway long story short, now with only the dipole (alpha delta trapped dipole at 30 ft) connected in the shack I have terrible RF problems and it can occur even barefoot at 100w so I am not pointing to the amp as of yet. I have dropped the antenna and checked that the coax is tight, checked to see if the coax is tight at the lighting arrestor, ran with and without the tuner connected. I have rechecked the grounding that I have in the shack, which after more research is not adequate, and I will be addressing that this weekend. However, I don't think that this will fix it. Right now I am thinking that I have a bad coax line outside of the house. The reason for this is that I had a new propane tank installed and they needed to back the truck up and had to drive over the buried coax. I did put boards down to spread out the load and protect the lawn and also the coax. However the problem has started since this incident. I pulled the coax out of the ground and it has bend marks at the edges where the boards were which to means that it was deformed and maybe it is now crushed. So other than doing a whole new ground setup with more ground rods outside and adding more chokes to the coax, I want to check out the coax that I have this weekend to determine if I have a "crushed" problem. Is there a way I can check it out with my 259b or is it just replace it and see what happens. Anyway, I am off the air until I get this sorted out. Basically now I have to start over, and frankly speaking I am a bit overwhelmed right now so I just need a friendly group to lean on as I really am frustrated right now as my favorite pastime is now no longer possible due to some failure of some kind or another. Thanks in advance for your understanding in a non-elecraft post, but this is the most friendly and knowledgeable group on the net that I belong to so please help me get my K3 back on the air. Cheers Don ~73 Don KD8NNU ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
