[TowerTalk] SteppIR problem-update from the front lines

[Paul Ferguson]

Bill,

When you connected the new 440 foot cable laying on the ground and 
without using the 6 volt battery boost, where the symptoms the same 
as when using your original burried cable?

I thought you were able to individually adjust each element, and the 
problem showed whan you tried to run all 4 elements. 

73,
Paul
K5ESW


Date sent:      	Sun, 17 Jun 2007 15:32:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:           	Bill Carnett <ah6fc at yahoo.com>
To:             	towertalk at contesting.com
Subject:        	[TowerTalk] SteppIR problem-update from the front 
lines

> Ok, Friday I received a new 440 foot control cable
> from Mike at SteppIR.  In addition he prepared a 6
> volt DC battery pack to piggy-back on the 33 volt
> power supply for the controller.
> 
> Neither worked.  Unit comes on, then shuts off with
> band selection.  Even tried going into set-up mode to
> individually select elements, same problem.  Make the
> selection, and the entire unit shuts down.  With a
> short control cable, i.e. 80 foot at the base of the
> tower, the unit works fine...full functioning.
> 
> So, anybody have other suggestions?  The problem seems
> to be related to the cable length.  Increasing the
> controller voltage to the maximum 38 doesn't help. 
> The SteppIR folks, Jerry, Jim, and Mike have been
> great, but we still can't figure out the problem.  
> 
> This is pretty frustrating.  I want to give this
> antenna a good opportunity to get functional, but I'm
> not sure it will in my application, i.e. 500 feet from
> controller to antenna.  It might be time to start
> looking for an alternative antenna?  
> 
> Again, thanks to all and any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> 73, Bill
> AH6FC/7
> 
> 
> 
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