You need to hold the mode button pressed while powering up. That puts you in
advanced mode.
73
Gary K4FMX
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Gene Smar via TowerTalk
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:32 AM
> To: 'Dave Thompson'; towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] MFJ-259B help needed
>
> Dave:
>
> To get to the Advanced Functions mode on the -259, you
> need to push TWO buttons simultaneously. Read the
> instructions at the top of page 14 immediately underneath the
> shaded box. The modes you have listed below are not Advanced.
>
>
> 73 de
> Gene Smar AD3F
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of Dave Thompson
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 11:00 AM
> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] MFJ-259B help needed
>
> Gang.
>
> I went to page 16 of the MFJ-259B analyzer and selected 5.5
> distance to default mode.
>
> This is the mode that tells you the distance to fault in feed.
>
> I pushed the mode button to get to the correct advanced mode.
>
> The 259B went through the following operations...
>
> Capacity
> Inductance
> freq counter
> impedance R & X
> coax loss
>
> and then started over so I never find the distance to fault
> mode in feet
>
> This is supposed to tell me where in the coax I have a
> problem. What am I missing?
>
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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