I think you've hit on the problem. I have seen RF in the shack lock the
Paragon in transmit, and the power supply issue sounds like you were drawing
excess current as well (is that a TT supply? If not, you may want to
consider a fast acting breaker bewteen it and your Paragon as TT uses that
technique to protect the radio from high current draws).
As a simple remedy, try making an RF choke with 8 turns, or so, of the coax
before it gets to your antenna tuner. This can prevent some of the RF
problems. Once I did that, I both at the antenna and in teh shack, I have
had NO problems at all with RF into the shack.
=Vic=
WA4THR
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Subject: Re: [TenTec] PARAGON Keying problem From: "Ken Buchsbaum"
<depshrink@yahoo.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:13:08 -0500
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Just tried the Paragon into a dummy load and it seemed to work fine. You
might be right about the rf. I wonder if it could be related to the
snow/ice on the antennas. I haven't made any changes lately that might
cause a change in the rf situation. I will start doing some checking to see
if I can isolate the cause of the rf.
Thanks for the input!
Ken, KB3FK
-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces@contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces@contesting.com]
On Behalf Of joel hallas
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:49 PM
To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment
Subject: Re: [TenTec] PARAGON Keying problem
Ken,
I've had that happen to my Paragon with RF getting into the radio. Have
you tried it into s dummy load with solid coax?
GL & 73, Joel
Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR
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