Towertalk
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna shift, VHF/UHF matching unit burning out

To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Antenna shift, VHF/UHF matching unit burning out
From: Bill <bmarx@bellsouth.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:33:01 -0400
List-post: <towertalk@contesting.com">mailto:towertalk@contesting.com>
I have not received any...I checked my Junk folder and none in there...
Bill W2CQ


On 4/21/2014 3:30 PM, Scott wrote:
GOOD LORD! I just opened my email and I got MORE raunchy pictures from Clare and now from Jessica.

WTH IS GOING ON! This has got to stop. These emails are coming off this list, they have the same subjects from Towertalk.

Last night I KNOW the n4jbk email from the mast slipping thread was spewing porn back every time it got an email. Now ANOTHER!

If I get another that's the end of Towertalk. This is stuff you don't want your wife and kids seeing FOR SURE

STEVE or anyone else who has keys to the list pse find out what is going on here. I know the ve4 that was replying to the mast thread last night was getting them also, so it's not me.

Scott
N1CX

At 10:29 AM 4/21/2014, Earl Morse wrote:
On the Diamond it's most likely a bad connection at or in the antenna. Or it has been damaged by a strike but not blown apart. I found the top 3' "exploded cigar" for my vhf/uhf antenna in the woods this spring. Guess that explains the high SWR, not that I use it that much.

On the AV-xxx vertical I don't think it is a bias issue saturating the matching transformer/balun. Where does the DC current go that flows through the balun (saturating it) into the antenna? You don't have a top light or preamp on the antenna do you?

If you have high SWR on all the bands take a look at the balun. Maybe it got overheated and smoked the core. Some of these antennas use baluns that are designed right on the edge and work good until something else goes bad. While the baluns are pretty efficient they can be overheated if operated outside of the design parameters. Once the ferrite core material starts hitting the Curie temperature it stops being a core and the transformer stops working. It can be a runaway condition in which the core eventually fails.

Earl
N8SS

------------------------------

At 10:23 PM 4/20/2014, Roger (K8RI) on TT wrote:
>I think that I've lost a ground.  The SWR has gone sky high on the
>Diamond 144/440 repeater antenna. As the antenna is only rated at
>200 watts the matching network is pretty light duty.  Also, the
>AV640 which originally was very easy to match, is now difficult to
>find the resonant points.
>
>I believe this is due to a DC bias through the matching transformers
>putting the cores into, or near saturation.
>
>I keep using, I think and I believe as I really don't know, but it
>sounds logical.
>
>The new AV840 just arrived and I need to work on the Diamond
>antenna, so I need to find the problem before going any farther with
>the antennas.
>
>I had been talking to N8ERF on the repeater when he mentioned I was
>getting noisy.  I immediately stopped transmitting, came in, got the
>SWR bridge, took it to the shop and put it in the line. The SWR had
>gone from 1.2:1, to off scale.  I think the finals are OK. I
>certainly hope so.
>
>So tomorrow, I'm going to add one of those grounding plates that tie
>everything together and to the station ground. The space behind the
>desk out there is a mass of wire, that could be neatened up, so I
>can see at a glance what is connected to what.
>
>That and all the projects need to be finished up so I have an
>organized shop in which to work.
>
>Any thoughts on the grounding would be appreciated
>
>73
>
>Roger (K8RI)
>



_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk

Salty's
Professional Wireless Communications
<http://www.radiosonline.com>radiosonline<http://www.radiosonline.com>.com
800-294-7234

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. If you are the NSA, the FBI, the DOJ, FCC, FEMA, MEMA, CBP, or the 56 other agencies that read my emails, I hope you enjoy my never ending flow of words, phrases, sentences, and opinions. Feel free to correct my spelling. _______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk


_______________________________________________



_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>