Boy does that sound familiar... First make sure you have a really really good ground.. Kenwood radios (IMHO) seem to need a better ground than many other radios or they suffer RF problems.
I also would make sure the open wire feed line comes away from the antenna at a 90 deg angle.. IF you suspect your ground is not adequate .. try laying some radials (temporarily) in your shack and make them as long as you can.. I use aluminum foil it works great but the wife hates me big time when I steal her foil. Finally if all else fails... get a remote balun from radio works and connect it to the feed line about 10-15 ft from the house/shack and bring coax in to the shack.. you might also add an UNUN at the back of the amp between the amp and the tuner. Jim wa3mej Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:52:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jim WA9YSD <wa9...@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Topband: It is not so much propagation To: "topband@contesting.com" <topband@contesting.com> Message-ID: <1332305550.70390.yahoomail...@web111704.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 All this talk about beverages makes me thirsty. ?Thats, for 160M DX. I use to rag chew on CW,use to run CW nets back in the day. If the guy is calling CQ DX I sit and listen to see what is drummed up. He is paying for the electric bill not me. Besides chances are he has a better antenna that I do on 160M. I am going to ramble just a bit, new to the forum. I live on a small city lot. always had RFI issue of one sort or another. The less time I transmit the better off I am when running 500 watts. ?Maybe I should start QRP but I am at 25 confirmed on 160M and gunning for 100 for 9B DXCC. I have been working DX for so long now that I for got how to rage-chew.? Stay on course, fight a good fight, and keep the faith.?Jim K9TF/WA9YSD ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:57:34 -0400 (EDT) From: dnem...@aol.com Subject: Topband: 160 meter G5RV To: topband@contesting.com Message-ID: <7e2b.6445433d.3c9b5...@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" My brother W2NFK just purchased a G5RV MAX 160-10 meter antenna and when he transmitts the RF is getting back into the shack making for RF burns on the mic.The transceiver is a K'wood TS 440-SAT with the built in tuner. Anyone have any ideas for a RF choke to stop it. Reply off line so not to start a long line on here.TNX ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Topband mailing list Topband@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/topband End of Topband Digest, Vol 111, Issue 37 **************************************** _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK