sounds like you forgot the ground wire! 5 band positions plus ground =
6 possibilities.
k4oj
Joe Barnes wrote:
>This past saturday I put an ameritron rcs-8v up on the tower, I am using 5
>conductor #18 wire as the control wire. When I tried to use the antennas I
>found that the switch was not selecting any of the antennas connected to it.
>Checking the back of the control box I found that all of the terminals had
>about 15.8 volts on them. When I disconnected the control box from the wire
>there was voltage only on the terminal selected. I checked the resistance
>between the wires and found it to be 250 ohms. When I first hooked up the
>switch the tower was not grounded ( just put the tower up the day before) .
>Does anyone w\know if this switch gets ground via the tower? and does anyone
>have an idea of what is wrong with my brand new ameritron switch?
>
>Thank you , Joe N4JBK
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