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[Amps] al-1500 parasitic?? or some other problem?

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Subject: [Amps] al-1500 parasitic?? or some other problem?
From: na9d-2@speakeasy.net (Jon Ogden)
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 18:07:51 -0500
on 5/15/02 1:36 PM, Steve Katz at stevek@jmr.com wrote:

> //Seems obvious this is NOT a parasitic, it's a product created
> elsewhere.  I've seen this kind of thing many times in densely populated
> contest stations, and it's often quite surprising what's caused it...things
> like oxidized guy cabling, all sorts of stuff.  Using a ferrite circulator
> between the amp and the feedline can help a lot, but an "HF - kilowatt"
> version of such an item is very costly. -WB2WIK/6

Maybe he should put some nichrome between his coax shields and tower?  Maybe
a blaun made out of nichrome for the beam?  Gotta stop those parasites!


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