Re: [Elecraft] fails on 30m only THANKS TO TAX !!!
One basic rule from the TAX man.more crap = more problems. Always has been, always will be. 73 Bob, K4TAX On 4/7/2020 11:07 PM, Bill Steffey NY9H wrote: I wiggled all connections & conections, then I took a small 50ohm load and inserted it at the few points from the radio thru my TopTen relay setup 2 radios by two amps to 6 ants ( 5 ants & 1 dummy load). The culprit was my big palstar auto tuner while off , was NOT in bypass. With that set properly all is good. Hopefully the only screwup made while reconfiguring my station my stay at home project. stay safe Jim bill/3 On 4/7/2020 7:59 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 4/7/2020 12:43 PM, Bill Steffey NY9H wrote: Bob prompted what was my next step ..one short jumper to the load.. Expeditioners that do lots of portable setups have repeatedly preached that when anything goes wrong in a radio system to ALWAYS suspect a bad piece of coax, and usually a bad or poorly installed connector. Back in the days when I was doing lots of live recording and sound reinforcement gigs, it was mic cables. A standard test was to plug a mic into the mixer with the cable(s) to test, listen on headphones with the gain up, and "rattle" both ends and the cable itself to expose any faults. To test coax cables, I'd do something equivalent with low power into a dummy load and watching SWR at the rig. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 Message delivered to n...@arrl.net __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Elecraft] fails on 30m only THANKS TO TAX !!!
I wiggled all connections & conections, then I took a small 50ohm load and inserted it at the few points from the radio thru my TopTen relay setup 2 radios by two amps to 6 ants ( 5 ants & 1 dummy load). The culprit was my big palstar auto tuner while off , was NOT in bypass. With that set properly all is good. Hopefully the only screwup made while reconfiguring my station my stay at home project. stay safe Jim bill/3 On 4/7/2020 7:59 PM, Jim Brown wrote: On 4/7/2020 12:43 PM, Bill Steffey NY9H wrote: Bob prompted what was my next step ..one short jumper to the load.. Expeditioners that do lots of portable setups have repeatedly preached that when anything goes wrong in a radio system to ALWAYS suspect a bad piece of coax, and usually a bad or poorly installed connector. Back in the days when I was doing lots of live recording and sound reinforcement gigs, it was mic cables. A standard test was to plug a mic into the mixer with the cable(s) to test, listen on headphones with the gain up, and "rattle" both ends and the cable itself to expose any faults. To test coax cables, I'd do something equivalent with low power into a dummy load and watching SWR at the rig. 73, Jim K9YC __ 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 Message delivered to n...@arrl.net -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus __ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
