[TowerTalk] Hardwired coax

[K7LXC at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/2007 2:16:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
towertalk-request at contesting.com writes:

>>What else could make that much difference?

>   Could be something incidental to the repair, like a shield strand
across  the coax or water ingress?


    Gerald, K5GW, mentioned the water ingress and I'm  becoming more 
convinced that that's the problem. The bottom part of the  feedline did spend several 
months luxuriating in our PNW winter precipitation  and the part I looked at 
was quite oxidized. 

>  Wait... the  SWR  went from 1:3 to 3:1?  You just transposed the center
and  shield then, right :-)



        Sorry, maybe the decimal  point didn't come thru. The original swr 
was 1.3:1 and now it's 3:1.
 
Cheers & appreciate all the comments,
Steve      K7LXC
TOWER TECH 



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