On testing of 9913 feedline, Larry Stowell, Wa2SRY wrote:
> tomorrow. I was surprised at all the comments against the 9913FC. At
> Guy's(K2AV) suggestion I connected the coax to a dummy load ad the swr was
> flat(1:1) all the way past 30mhz.
A common failure with 9913 is water ingress. This could increase the
attenuation, making the SWR even closer to 1. A good test is to hook up a
non-matching load, say 150 ohms (my choice, since my my instrument is most
accurate at 3:1 SWR measurement) and check the measured SWR.
Regards,
Rajiv, N2RD
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