[TowerTalk] Heliax acting strangely: Help?

[Ed Sawyer]

Doug, there are a couple of issues that I have found that show the same
things you are seeing on my 7/8 Hardline.  One was a carbonized path through
the dielectric that I assume was lightning strike damage from ground
proximity.  The other was a "kink" that was formed in the copper outer
jacket from a sizable tree branch that fell on it.  Both displayed exactly
what you are seeing after I did some of the same things that you did.

 

Ed  N1UR