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Re: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft XM-240 problem

To: "Russ Dearmore" <champsruss@yahoo.com>, <towertalk@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft XM-240 problem
From: "Steve Baughn" <baughn@centurylink.net>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 15:15:18 -0400
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Thanks Russ and Mike,

I don't like to put all my eggs in the MFJ basket but have to say the rig here (FT1000D) and RF applications wattmeter basically confirmed what the 259b said. I think the next step is to rotate the boom 90 degrees and see if that makes any difference. After that I may drop the TH-11 since it is easier to get to and see again if the results change..I am only using 1 feedline and have checked it forwards and backwards. Will report back when I get this figured out

73,
Steve, WD8NPL

-----Original Message----- From: Russ Dearmore via TowerTalk
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 11:29 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Cushcraft XM-240 problem

Steve, I was having similar problems in which logic was no help and it turned out that my MFJ antenna analyzer was bad. Since then my bread and butter analyzer is the iPortable iP60z. I now have 2 analyzers and it has saved me a lot of time for sure.

Also once when I was really stumped it turned out that I had fried my coax switching relay. After that I use single coax runs exclusively. Both problems produced weird resonance dips. These problems shouldn't have been that hard to figure out but I made it a real circus by trusting bad equipment. Hopefully you have been able to verify your test equipment and they are good. Sorry if my reply is too simplistic.... Russ K5ZZR My Heroes Wear Combat Boots!
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