I tuned around this morning and I noticed immediately my null on the SW EWE was not there. I quick look at the termination from acros the fence, it loked kind "ok", but it did not seem right. I clicked on the signal generator as my transmitter and grabbed the portable rebroadcasting the R8 on 820. With the null, I pretty much lose KGNW Seattle and KORC Waldport OR dominates. This morning it was all KGNW. I knew something was wrong. When I got to the termination, I found the wire mesh I had nailed in front of the pot was pulled away and was loose. Of course the pot was moved and the control was off. I repeaked it on 820 and came back, got some nails and nailed the mesh back. A cow must have been eating the grass next to it and pulled it loose. Fortunately with the mesh, the pot and box was unharmed. Before I put the mesh there, the cows would chew on the plastic box. That does not help the control either. hi. Anyway everything is back to normal. Except, I had a time repeaking the pot. It is almost 1 PM (PDT) and yet, skip is all over the dial. Nothing is stable. Infact there is something on every X band freq including a weak XEPE-1700. This was at 12:15 PM. KRED Eureka CA topping Portland. As it gets towards Winter, adjusting those pots is not an easy task. Often I have to go out and repeak them on a no skip middle of the day, but those are hard to find.
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