[TowerTalk] C-31XR Jacketed Feed

[HFDXJUNKIE at aol.com]

Group, What I thought was a bad balun turns out to be my jacked feed from  
the 10 meter driver to the 20 is cooked I see now while replacing   loading 
wires on a 30 meter antenna. I called Tom and he told me he never seen  or heard 
of a problem like that except from a DX station who ran some HP through  it. I 
do not tune this antenna on any WARC bands. It is used for 10-15-20 only.  I 
rarely run over 1 KW into the antenna. Has anyone seen this before  or know why 
it might have happened? Its an easy fix with new direct burial 12  gauge , 
but I am curious why it happened. The only thing I can think of is when  it was 
raining out quite heavy the insulator on the element was so wet it became  
conductive and shorted out. Any ideas while I have things apart now getting  
serviced ? Hard to believe I was sweating with a tee shirt on up on the tower in  
November here on Long island..what a beautiful day !
 
Direct email to me is best. 
 
 
                                         Thx,  Pete NA2P