Rich, I am glad you found the problem, but my guess is that you only
temporarily fixed it. My experience is that this stuff re-emerges, usually
after temp cycling a bit, sometime a number of months later. I have learned
to do a clean replacement once found to avoid re-occurring problems -
especially on the tower. And its always right before or during a
contest....
73
Ed N1UR
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:06:10 -0500
From: Richard Thorne <rthorne@rthorne.net>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] 40m Beam: Problem - Attenuation and Static
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The WX cooperated yesterday evening so I could climb the tower.
I disconnected the coax to the balun as well as disconnecting the balun from
the feed point, then reconnected both.
During the disconnection process I did not notice anything unusual. I also
opened the balun and everything looked normal.
Since and SWR analyzer was not useful for identifying the problem I took my
Elecraft KX2 up the tower with it's own coax to connect to the balun.
After reconnecting the balun to the feed point I connected the KX2 to the
balun and found WW0Y CQing.? The beam was pointed in the wrong direction but
he did hear me for a very brief QSO.
A picture of the KX2 setup is on my qrz page.
I wonder if this is the first qso made at 120' on a tower?
At any rate the problem is now resolved.? I guess the disconnect/reconnect
solved the problem.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Rich - N5ZC
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