[TowerTalk] Tuner SWR Drift

[Tom Osborne]

HI Wilson

The coax jacks are already mounted with nuts and bolts to the inside of 
the tuner where there is no paint, just aluminum.  The suggestion with 
the cliplead sound like a good idea.  I'll give that a shot after the 
RTTY Roundup.  73
Tom W7WHY



On 1/3/2015 9:19 AM, Wilson wrote:
> Make a short cliplead to go from cap frame to shaft.  Set SWR and leave power on.  When SWR drifts, connect the cliplead, first on one cap, then the other.
> If it helps, you may be able to retension the bearing fingers.  If not, use a big electrolytic cap and spotweld some small braid across the bearings.
> Check cap mounting nuts.
> I had the rivet problem, fixed with two screws/connector.  One would be fine too.
> WL
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