Thanks for the input Eddy, Joe, Kimberly, Pete and Jeremy. There "is" one band
that the load is "only" about 80% meshed, I think it's the 10 meter band
positions, I don't use that band much so I don't really remember which one it
is but, I do know it's one of the higher freq. bands might be 15 meter. I agree
Eddy, I have never had an amp that required full mesh on "most of " the bands.
This seems to be common with this amp, as I stated earlier others have had the
same problem.
I guess I'll need to beg, borrow or steal a dummy load that will handle the
power, I am feeding the amp into a HC-2000 tuner (inductive load) and then into
a 400' non-resonant loop with ladder line, the tuner has a balun in it. The
tuner will tune to a 1:1 SWR on 80 - 10, I don't have a transmitter that will
transmit on 160. I'm using RG-213 everywhere except the ladder line, no coax
switches are in line at this time. I also have a Studdard(sp), similar to a
Bird, watt meter to verify that the tuner is not lying to me about reflected
power.
Could the fact that I'm using a tuner and not a resonant antenna for each band
cause this?
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Hi Ken,
NO amplifier that I've encountered has EVER operated with the loading
capacitor fully-meshed on ALL bands...
Something is definitely amiss, that goes beyond just design, IMHO.
Maximum capacitance at this spot indicates minimum loading. I concur with
what someone else said about first firing the amp into a TRUE non-inductive
52-ohm dummy load, to see what might happen...and try on ALL bands, too.
~73~ Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ
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