[TowerTalk] MFJ-259B help needed

[Gary Schafer]

You need to hold the mode button pressed while powering up. That puts you in
advanced mode.

73
Gary K4FMX 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On 
> Behalf Of Gene Smar via TowerTalk
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:32 AM
> To: 'Dave Thompson'; towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] MFJ-259B help needed
> 
> Dave:
> 
>      To get to the Advanced Functions mode on the -259, you 
> need to push TWO buttons simultaneously.  Read the 
> instructions at the top of page 14 immediately underneath the 
> shaded box.  The modes you have listed below are not Advanced.
> 
> 
> 73 de
> Gene Smar  AD3F
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On 
> Behalf Of Dave Thompson
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2020 11:00 AM
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] MFJ-259B help needed
> 
> Gang.
> 
> I went to page 16 of the MFJ-259B analyzer and selected 5.5 
> distance to default mode.
> 
> This is the mode that tells you the distance to fault in feed.
> 
> I pushed the mode button to get to the correct advanced mode.
> 
> The 259B went through the following operations...
> 
> Capacity
> Inductance
> freq counter
> impedance R & X
> coax loss
> 
> and then started over so I never find the distance to fault 
> mode in feet
> 
> This is supposed to tell me where in the coax I have a 
> problem.  What am I missing?
> 
> 73 Dave K4JRB
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