Strange, that happened to me in the CQWW into the SteppIR. Cut the power a bit
and it went away. Thought maybe I wasn't right on with the antenna.
Some ageing problem?
N0UU
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> Have a strange problem in the shack.
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> Run the same antennas and had no issues, put in line my Yaesu 5000 and
> palstar AT.
> All antennas tune flat 1:1 but when I run QRO the Acom 2K comes up with arc
> fault even with low drive of 20watts.
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> I can place a load at the end of the coax outside and have no issues but when
> I got to any antenna 260' center fed dipole or a vertical I get a fault and
> the amp shuts down.
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> Sounds like an RF issue but why now when nothing has changed outside?
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> Have not seen anything like this in 40yrs I've been operating.
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