Wow! sounds like a really wierd ground loop. Try a bigger hammer!
May be spikes from switching???
Good luck.
Scott
At 08:25 AM 10/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, the contest starts this evening and Murphy arrived at my place
>yesterday. Strange as this combination may sound, here it is.
>
>Every time I switch antennas using my Ameritron RCS8V control box, my TNC,
>a PK232, goes crazy, drops the connection to the cluster, and enters modes
>I never new of. The switch box and my 2 meter antenna share the same tower,
>my only tower. If I disconnect the coax from the antenna to my old Kenwood
>2 meter rig, the TNC works fine when I switch antennas. Useless, but it
>works. I can also turn off the control box, rotate the switch, turn it back
>on and avoid the problem. Not so swift. So, the common denominators are:
>this only happens when I rotate the antenna selection switch and when the
>coax is attached to the two meter rig, which is in turn conntected to the
>TNC. My usual solution to these problems, a quarter of a stick, may be a
>bit too much here. Any other ideas, suggestions?
>
>73,
>Joe, N8JF
>
>
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