Oh, to have the time, the space, and the money.  Very nice setup!

Bill
KJ4SLP

On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Phil Theis <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have 22 bands integrated into my 5000A and am just getting around to
> working high power on the lower bands.
> Have 1500 watts from 160m - 70cm and good power beyond that in frequency.
> I worked the PA QSO party this weekend and although I had a little rf in my
> audio system (another issue that will be addressed) I had some significant
> issues when running cw.
> On SSB things seemed to be ok, but on CW I got some funny things happening
> on occasion with the mode window in PowerSDR.  It seemed like it would
> momentarily switch into SSB mode.  But that was so quick, I couldn't tell
> for sure.
> More disturbing was reports of sounding like having ac hum on the line.  I
> had reports of need to check my power supply.  I'm sure it's not the power
> supply as I am on a battery isolated by a Power gate product for keeping the
> battery charged.
> I have the usual rf choke installed on the Firewire line as well as an
> additional ferrite core around that cable.
> All devices are grounded well to a heavy ground that circles the house.
> Using an ACOM 2000a amplifier.
> The amplifier is located approx 20 feet away from the Flex near the antenna
> switching frame where antennas are switched.
> I added a DX Engineering Ferrite isolation choke to the input of the
> amplifier but it did not make a difference.
> I'm thinking next steps would be to start adding ferrite and coils to the
> coax feeding the amplifier to keep rf from coming back toward the Flex.
> I am looking for other folks experience and suggestions for next steps in
> being able to run full power on CW.  Like I said, SSB seems to work fine.
> Thanks for input.
> 73,
> Phil K3TUF
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