Topband: High winds flapping the L/FCP

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Had another gusty day, ran more (120) graphing cycles for a longer time (40
minutes) to see if the additional time showed more variation. It did. This
one explained some never explained KPA1500 SWR faults. Added that to the
Snip.

k2av.com/Snips.20220323.html

73, Guy K2AV


On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 11:48 PM Guy Olinger K2AV <k2av.guy at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Had a very gusty March 7 here in eastern North Carolina blowing the
> L/FCP all over. Did some 160m R,X,SWR scans to see the electrical
> result of that, recording them to graphical format. Was not expecting
> what I got.
>
> Would you have guessed that there is a way for the wind to wobble an
> antenna wire, so that the feed X would wobble, the feed SWR wobble
> worse, and the feed R would not? Text and graphics at:
>
> k2av.com/Snips.20220323.html
>
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> Enjoy.
>
> 73, Guy K2AV
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