[TowerTalk] tuning A3s

[Cqtestk4xs at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/20/2009 12:54:10 AM Greenwich Standard Time,  
john at kk9a.com writes:
I have installed a Cushcraft A3 at 30 feet maximum on  DX-Peditions using 
factory settings and the antenna worked fine in the  segment that I set it 
for.  I think something is either wrong with your  measurements or the traps. 
If you have deviate much from the factory  settings so it will be resonate 
inside the band,  the director and  reflector dimensions may also be off and 
you won't have the proper  pattern.  Before condemning the antenna, I would 
use another method of  checking the  SWR.
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I  have been following this thread on and off  and I wonder if this is a new  
or old A-3.  If it has been outside for a while  then there is always  a 
possibility there is water in the traps.  These things are notorious  "sponges" 
for water.  The ones I had in FL occasionally had to be  "boiled off"
 
Bill KH7XS
 
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