This morning I got up and went on the air in the CQWW RTTY Contest.
Everything had been fine yesterday, but as soon as I made my first
transmission, both of my monitors shut down. Eventually, I found that
the cause was RFI - anything over about 40 watts and blooey (the
computer was fine). Without a lot of excruciating detail, I think the
cause was a hand-tight PL-259 somewhere in my feedline out to my antenna
switch. Initially it looked fjne, and then it started showing me high
SWRs on all bands. I snugged them all down and it went away.
This is a first to me in some 40 years of playing radio and computers.
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73, Pete N4ZR
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