[TowerTalk] Trouble shooting HF6V

[VR2BrettGraham]

KC5AJX wrote:

>I had a lightning strike at my QTH awhile back. It seems that all that was
>damaged was the antenna system, The coax was disconnected from the shack.
>I have replaced all the coax from the shack to the Butternut HV6V vertical
>but I still have problems with high swr at the antenna.

Check for conductivity across one of the insulators.

I've frequently had problems with carbon building up across the insulators over
time due to salt spray on my HF2 - perhaps a lightning strike might be 
enough to
help fry whatever had been on your HF6.

Alternatively, perhaps the 80m cap fried (unlikely) or a similar 
conductivity has
formed around it.  I've had problems with heavy rain in 9M6 mucking things up
with both the 80 & 30m bits (an HF6 stripped down to just an HF2).  A cover
solved that, but unfortunately not the QRN often that usually accompanies the
wet!

73, VR2BrettGraham


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