[TenTec] omini 6+ & antenna question

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Just take a dummy load and hook it to the rig and see how it behaves.

-----Original Message-----
From: kz2g at optonline.net
To: tentec at contesting.com, tentec at contesting.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 03:47:48 -0700
Subject: [TenTec] omini 6+ & antenna question

> I'm using a Ten Tec Omni 6+.  My antennas are a 17-meter mobile whip
> tuned for 20-meter with my mfj Versa Tuner II.  My other antenna is the
> radiating element of a Mosely TA-33 jr beam used as a non-rotatable
> trap dipole and no tuner.  My coax is about 30 years old.  Here's my
> problem:
> 
> When I transmit using over 15 watts, the S zero noise level I had
> before transmitting, pops up to an S 3 and stays there for about 30
> seconds after I stop transmitting.
> 
> When I use 100 watts, at times my SWR pops way up and I must re-tune my
> whip antenna with my tuner.
> 
> On rare occasions, after I stop transmitting, I have a very weak
> receiver.  I must hit my dit or dah paddle on my cw paddles and my
> receiver pops up to a hot receiver again.
> 
> What do you think is causing these problem?  Arcing in my tuner?  A bad
> TR relay in my Omni 6+?  A bad antenna ground?  RF getting into the
> rig?  Bad coax?  Or bad antennas?
> 
> Bob Mauro, KZ2G Via Web Mail
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