Look closely and you may see a hairline crack on the bad one.
Also look for other possibilities. A number of times I've swapped out
"bad" matching capacitors without solving the problem, only to find
later it was simply an oxidized connection that needed to be cleaned up
and tightened down.
73/Jon AA1K
On 1/29/2014 7:26 PM, James C. Hall, MD wrote:
I have an omega matched 120 foot tower and I apparently have a bad vacuum
variable capacitor. Upon applying more than about 300 watts, the SWR goes off
scale. Tuning it out and trying again, yields the same thing.
The question is which capacitor is the culprit. These are surplus Soviet caps
obtained from the Ukraine and, as I recall, the larger value capacitor is the
parallel one, not the series one. I could buy one of each and switch one at a
time and have a spare left over. Any suggestions ?
73, Jamie
WB4YDL
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