Never take cables completely for granted. I recently had a Pomona BNC
jumper, looked good, ohm'ed out good, but on my analyzer was BAD. It
was weird! Physically looked beautiful, tested out perfect with the
DMM, but wow, was it ever a baddie on the RF analyzer.
Here's how to check: Put a dummy load on the end and test'um. You
should see 50 ohms all across the range, SWR 1:1 across the range.
Yes, I threw the bad cable in the trash, don't worry no one will buy it
from me for $1 at the next ham swap meet! 73 de Alex NS6Y
On Apr 20, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Darwin, Keith wrote:
> Last night, while driving home from work, I was formulating my plan of
> attack. First I'd do a walk around at the antenna base to see if
> things
> are good there. I noticed the connection between the coax and the
> antenna was just a tad loose. I hand tightened it and then checked the
> system with my analyzer.
>
> All was back the way it should be. Tuner settings on 40 meters is once
> again wide and forgiving. I'm getting 200 KHz of more of 2:1 bandwidth
> and the settings are back to where they used to be.
>
> K2 is once again happy and the Palstar meter are saying I have a good
> match. To celebrate, I made a CW contact on 40 with the K2. Very nice
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions & such. It helps to get a guys thoughts
> organized.
>
> 73!
>
> - Keith -
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