You might read K4IA's post yesterday responding to N1VS whose screen
faded in transmit.
I used to get a flicker on my display when transmitting until I took
his advice several months back to insure a good power connection.
I'm using
an Astron RS-35A.
73, Gary W7TEA
On Jan 26, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Natan Huffman wrote:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Today I took delivery of an Orion with version 2.056 firmware and
integrated, with great ease, the rig into the station.
Unfortunately I am
having an issue while on 80 meters where my antenna is near the
shack and
only up 50 feet. The station is grounded well as is the house with
each
having two 15’ ground rods and short ground wires < ¼ lamda at
80) . These
grounds are tied into 4 more at the base of the tower about 50’
away from
the shack. I doubt the problem (white screen when transmitting) is
due to
lack of grounding but rather the presence of a strong RF field
generated by
the 80 antenna. Just for fun (done in 4 degree wx) I disconnected
the large
bus to the tower base and no change. I also checked VDC at the
plug in the
back providing power and it’s fine.
This problem is not seen on two other transceivers in the shack
when used on
80, which also suggests the problem is RF from the antenna. Might
there be
some remedy so that I don’t have a white screen when transmitting?
Thanks in advance,
Natan W6XR
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