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Topband: Inv-L Issues - Still no luck

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Subject: Topband: Inv-L Issues - Still no luck
From: Dan Bookwalter <n8dcj@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Dan Bookwalter <N8DCJ@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:48:43 -0800 (PST)
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Ok , I am having a real problem here that I haven't been able to solve yet.

I have an inverted L out at the tower that is about 160' long , 70ft vertical 
the rest sort of horiz , slopes down.... I have one run of RG213 to the RCS-10 
remote antenna switch which is at the tower , it was very close to the L , so i 
moved it so that it is now about 4 ft away from the L, I also grounded it. what 
is happening is that when i transmit , even 1 dit at about 10 watts something 
happens out at the switch , the radio goes silent , then after a minute or two 
it usually starts to come back. it only affects the port that the L is attached 
to , my Windom is on port 2 and it works fine , so it isnt the radio , the L 
also works just fine on other bands , I replaced 2 PL-259's and changed the 
coax that goes from the switch to the L , I do not know what else to do at this 
point other than at night when i want to use 160 go out to the tower and 
connect the feedline directly to the L. It happens no matter what port i have 
the L connected to...

any ideas ?

Dan
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