I would increase the length of the ladder line first. Easiest first check
jeff
ve3ios
----- Original Message -----
From: "robert k stephens" <bstephens1@mindspring.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: [TenTec] ALC Scout
> The Scout does not have an ALC meter but does have an ALC light that
blinks
> on and off when the ALC is working properly.
>
> The ALC light does not blink on 15 meters with one of my antennas. The ALC
> does work properly when connected to my car's mobile whip so I assume the
> problem is in the station set up rather than in the rig.
>
> The problem situation is a 25.5 ft ladderline fed attic antenna (an open
> wire G5RV mini sort of) up 45 feet tuned by the little 200 watt MFJ
tuner.
> Ground is the cold water pipe. The antenna tunes up with some dificulty
but
> I do get better than 1.5 to 1 SWR. The ALC does not light no matter how
> high the gain is. I set the gain at the normal position and tried to
> contact a couple of contesters (no pileup so it should have been easy
> contacts) but either no one heard me or I sound terible so I stopped using
> 15 meters on that antenna (works good enough on mobile whip).
>
> Do I have an antenna problem, ground problem or Scout problem? Should I
> adjust the length of the antenna first or look at the ground system first?
> Or is the problem something else that I'm not considering ?
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