[1000mp] Quadra Amp

[Mark Tetrault]

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 18:47:52 +0000, you scribbled:

>
>Ok, good work.
>Now .....  I forget if you said you had an antenna tuner.
>We need to find out if the problem is the amp not liking a little swr, or if 
>there is pickup of rf (radiated from the antenna) getting into some lead. 
>(When you used the dummy load you eliminated both causes, right?).
>
>How can we determine this?  One way would be to use the antenna tuner 
>between the rig and dummy load to CAUSE a little SWR, instead of correct for 
>swr.
>
>I said we would run controlled experiments, not guess.  But the temptation 
>to guess is sooooo great !!!!
>
>Rick  K2XT
>
>ok - I can't resist - my guess is the amp doesn't like hardly ANY SWR.  But 
>verify this, please!!!

The amp is the Yaesu Quadra with the built in tuner.

Mark