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Re: [TowerTalk] Interpreting symptoms

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Interpreting symptoms
From: krishna kanakasapapathi <kkanakas@cisco.com>
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 08:59:47 -0400
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Hi Pete,
The water in the coax can be a suspect, but i assume most hams use some 
sort of sealant at the junction and hence
trouble shooting the EHUs would be yet another logical step. At any 
rate, if the tape movement sound is smooth,
Mike is going to rule out the EHU's quite fast.
73s
krish
w4vku

On 5/5/2011 7:58 AM, Pete Smith wrote:
> I don't understand the logic here.  If the SWR goes high on all bands,
> why wouldn't it be logical first to check for water ingress in a
> connector, or some similar simple failure, before assuming a major
> failure of the antenna?  I've seen this symptom quite a few times, and
> only once has it turned out to be anything but a connector problem.
>
> 73, Pete N4ZR
>
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> On 5/5/2011 7:29 AM, krishna kanakasapapathi wrote:
>> Most likely not a coax issue. Also unlikely for the balun to go bad and
>> my guess is that, it is your driven that is at fault.
>>
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