Let me echo Russ's comment about the MFJ analyzers. My experience with it
was mixed at best. It would show erroneous readings on known good antennas
(and no, I don't live near a broadcast tower). I sold mine and bought the
Rig Expert AA-54. Never looked back.
Mike - KI8R
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Russ Dearmore via TowerTalk <
towertalk@contesting.com> wrote:
> Steve, I was having similar problems in which logic was no help and it
> turned out that my MFJ antenna analyzer was bad. Since then my bread and
> butter analyzer is the iPortable iP60z. I now have 2 analyzers and it has
> saved me a lot of time for sure.
>
> Also once when I was really stumped it turned out that I had fried my coax
> switching relay. After that I use single coax runs exclusively. Both
> problems produced weird resonance dips. These problems shouldn't have been
> that hard to figure out but I made it a real circus by trusting bad
> equipment. Hopefully you have been able to verify your test equipment and
> they are good. Sorry if my reply is too simplistic.... Russ
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