[Fourlanders] More 432 Stuff

[Jim Worsham]

Good idea!  I will try that.

73
Jim, W4KXY

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian McCarthy [mailto:rfacres at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 2:32 PM
To: wa4kxy at bellsouth.net
Cc: Fourlanders Contest Group
Subject: Re: [Fourlanders] More 432 Stuff

Did you try a different length jumper between the 897 and the Bird? If
the behavior changes, wouldn't that indicate RF current on the outside
of the coax and that the 897 is correct?

Just a thought...
Brian
NX9O

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Jim Worsham <wa4kxy at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I got to spend some more time looking at the 432 situation this afternoon.
> You guys will love this.  I disconnected the brick and put it back in the
> box (project for another day).  I put a Bird Wattmeter between the FT897
and
> the antenna.  The Bird shows almost no reflected power, not zero but
barely
> enough to make the needle move when the forward power is full scale BUT
the
> FT897 indicates that there is significant SWR and is dropping the TX power
> to 10 Watts.  I then replace the antenna with a dummy load and the Bird as
> well as the FT897 indicates no reflected power.  I then replace the dummy
> load with the antenna and the Bird shows almost no reflected power and the
> FT897 shows significant reflected power as before.  What the...  At that
> point I had a sched with W4ZRZ in EM63 so I went with what I had.  I
worked
> Jimmy no problem so I seem to be getting out.  He said I was weak but
> perfectly copyable so that is one more grid on 432.  Any of you guys have
> any ideas on the SWR weirdness?  Oh, one more thing.  When I tried to
swing
> the antennas back around to the north when I was finished it wouldn't go
any
> further than due east.  I walked outside and sure enough, a tree that was
> not much higher than the house when I moved in has now grown to where it
is
> hitting the bottom 2 meter antenna and preventing rotation beyond that
> point.  Sigh...  When it rains it pours.  At least that is easy enough to
> fix by cutting the tree down.
>
>
>
> 73
>
> Jim, W4KXY
>
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