[TowerTalk] TowerTalk Digest, Vol 168, Issue 45

[Wilson Lamb]

Don't beat yourself up.
It's a hobby.
Learn and move on!
WL

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Today's Topics:

   1. UN7LZ... and QRM ... apologies... (StellarCAT)


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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 10:13:39 -0500
From: "StellarCAT" <rxdesign at ssvecnet.com>
To: "tower" <towertalk at contesting.com>
Subject: [TowerTalk] UN7LZ... and QRM ... apologies...
Message-ID: <F42F5B7201D740EE8A379012CE56B3D8 at RXDesignDell>
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I just had to get this off my chest ... I feel terrible about this ...

so last night, Sunday the 18th (19th Z) I heard UN7LZ for the first time ... 
weak ? but there ... so as always I only call if there is a good chance I 
can work the station out of fairness to those that are hearing them better 
... so I am trying away and he is just dropping down to where I?m going to 
have to stop trying hoping he?ll come back up again ... and all of a sudden 
my panadapter shows my TX signal as full band peaks ? something is wrong ? I 
look at the SWR meter and it is saying over 3:1 ... the output is down to 
800W ... I stop TXing immediately ... I think ?crap ? NOW what?? ... I?ve 
been having issues with the amp, an Expert 2K, on SSB when using the built 
in tuner... it will change segments on me and create a high SWR then 
faulting on ?HIGH SWR? ... but it had worked fine up until now on CW ...

so I move off frequency ? CAREFULLY listen to be sure no one is there and 
hit a few dots ? same SWR ? so its not the tuner issue as with it the SWR on 
the antenna itself isn?t changing ... so I do this for a couple minutes ...

moving higher up ? still being sure its clear (using both the dipole and the 
HiZ RX array to be sure) ... and the SWR isn?t changing ... still high but 
the same ... THEN I realize ... I had the frickin radio set to SPLIT and I 
am STILL 30Hz above the UN7?s frequency!!!!!!!!

SO ? YES ? it was me ... and my sincere apologies. It was NOT intentional 
QRM ... it was just some idiot that THOUGHT he was being careful that was in 
fact not.

Again: apologies to those 4 or 5 guys calling and to UN7LZ.

Gary
K9RX

Meanwhile I still now have to figure out why the antenna is acting up. Its 
been up for all of 7 weeks... more in a separate thread.

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