Spooks! Haunted soil! ;-)
That's probably not the problem.
As I mentioned privately, I think uploading some more photos to a free
file-sharing service website *and sharing those links here* would help us
all to help you solve this.
Since photo attachments to the Topband Reflector are not possible, can
anyone recommend a good file sharing website that Todd (and others) could
use?
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 2:48 PM Todd Goins <tgoins@gmail.com> wrote:
> Regarding the choke construction and implementation. Mike and I have had an
> offline exchange, with pictures, and I think we have agreed that the choke
> has been constructed properly per the newest K9YC specifications using a
> 2.4" Type 31 Fair-Rite toroid and 18 turns of RG400.
>
> Also, the 150' long coax feedline has never been attached while taking any
> measurements. At least not any reported here. All of the recent data (taken
> with the RigExpert analyzer) I've put in tables in postings has been while
> being connected to the output of a choke. The feedline was not part of the
> equation. The coax stubs coming off of the choke are only a couple of
> inches long on each end. The body of the RigExpert is plastic and it
> doesn't seem to matter whether or not I'm holding it but I do take the
> "official" measurements with it sitting on a towel on the ground. I did
> also take measurements with a 4' coax jumper between the choke output and
> the analyzer just to get the analyzer clear of the radial attachment area.
> This made no appreciable difference in the measured values.
>
> At this point the "antenna erected over haunted burial ground" theory is
> sounding more and more plausible.
>
> Hope to catch lots of you guys, hey and maybe some DX too, on the 160
> contest this weekend.
>
> 73,
> Todd - NR7RR
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