[TowerTalk] Nuther reason for mounting remote antenna switch within reach

[K8RI on TT]

Things have been working fairly well although not all the antennas are 
up yet...actually a long way to go.

A few evenings back I worked some stations on six.  Last night I fire up 
and selected 40 meters only to find the band was deader than the 
proverbial door nail.  No...I worked a few on the AV640 dummy load. (it 
was stuck by lightning)  At any rate, tonight I checked the remote 
switch on both 75 and 40 (nothing) Then I checked the wiring, and coax 
out to the tower.  Looked good, but visual doesn't mean a lot and 
besides the one switch would select the AV640, but neither on the other 
worked. Sooo... I jumpered the feed line to the 40 meter sloper around 
the remote coax and I had signal with the proper settings on the tuner.  
That pretty well nails it down to the remote switch or a connection 
providing power to it. The control has power, and the proper LEDs light 
so it's either the control cable, connection to the remote, or the 
remote switch itself.  I hope to get home early enough tomorrow night 
(well tonight by looking at the clock) to check out the remote 
switch/relays.

It sure is nice to be able to check this out without having to climb a 
100 feet.

73

Roger (K8RI)