[TowerTalk] TH-3JR

[Paul Playford]

Probably the outer traps on the driven element are zapped.  The sleeve will
come off with the proper amount of applied force, and the coils are easy to
wind.  I used denatured alcohol to clean the carbon off the plastic coil
forms before re-winding mine.

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de Paul, W8AEF

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard, M5RIC" <m5ric at talk21.com>
To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:48 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] TH-3JR


Hi

Just got a used TH-3JR assembled and tuned for phone according to the
manual. It is fine on 10M and 20M but SWR is sky high on 15M. I checked the
joints and cleaned them to make sure there was good contact but still no
resonant point on the band that I can find.

Any suggestions to what to try next?? I'll have a look at the traps tomorrow
and see if there is anything obvious.

Thanks

Richard