Wouldn't wouldn't water in the coax cause fluctuating SWR and poor antenna
performance? Have you tried QRO?
GL
John
----- Original Message -----
From: K7LXC@aol.com
To: john@kk9a.com ; TOWERTALK@contesting.com
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hardwired coax
In a message dated 4/30/2007 6:35:18 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, john@kk9a.com
writes:
> Are you sure that the stepper motors are functioning?
Yep. The antenna acts like an antenna and functions normally.
> The only time that
I've seen high SWR and yet the antenna still functioned properly is when I
had a hairpin match break.
What hairpin match? SteppIRs have an internal balun.
> I don't believe the MonstIR uses any type of
match, except for a 2:1 balun. Could the balun be the cause? I seriously
doubt it's from your splice, if done properly.
The only way to check a balun is to substitute another one. In the case
of the SteppIR, that's not possible.
I think what the problem is is water ingress to the dangling damaged
coax.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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