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Re: [TowerTalk] SWR shifts with power

To: "'Bill Coleman'" <aa4lr@arrl.net>,"'Larry Phipps'" <larry@telepostinc.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SWR shifts with power
From: "Gary Schafer" <garyschafer@comcast.net>
Reply-to: garyschafer@comcast.net
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:35:40 -0500
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Any ceramic capacitors in the circuit?

73
Gary  K4FMX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:towertalk-
> bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Coleman
> Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:28 PM
> To: Larry Phipps
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] SWR shifts with power
> 
> 
> On Jan 23, 2006, at 10:01 PM, Larry Phipps wrote:
> 
> > I would suspect an intermittent connection... either a coax
> > connector or
> > maybe a joint between tower sections. You should bridge the sections
> > with straps. Also the rotator bearings should be bridged with
> > straps...
> > anything that could provide a marginal connection.
> 
> I swapped out the coax with another line - same problem.
> 
> I doubt the tower section joints are a problem, although the rotator
> might be interesting.
> 
> I was thinking more like it might be a problem in the matching
> network itself.
> 
> 
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr@arrl.net
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
>              -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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