[1000mp] ROOFING FILTER

[Chuck Lewis]

Dennis,

Make sure the small coax connectors are fully seated. It's easy to get the 
center pin misaligned and that keeps the thing from being fully mated. 
Someone else recently had a similar issue and reseating the coax solved the 
problem. Apparently, there's enough signal getting through to hear, but the 
open center conductor is keeping the signal levels too low. Look at some 
other coax connections in the radio to check how far into their female 
sockets they are inserted, than compare with the ones you did on the filter 
board. Good Luck!

Chuck, N4NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "roofus" <roofus at sbcglobal.net>
To: <1000mp at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 11:54 AM
Subject: [1000mp] ROOFING FILTER


>I received the INRAD Roofing Filter as a Christmas present and just now got
> around to installing it in my MARK V (200W) and the difference it makes is
> incredible.  What I have now though is no S-meter reading what so ever.  I
> had the IF mod in and when I did that I changed menu 9-1 from 13 to 9 and
> the S-meter seemed to be pretty close to my ear, I have no test equipment.
> Looking around the bands today I found someone on 17 meters giving me a 
> S-5
> on my IC-706 MIIG and the same S-5 on the MARK-V sub VFO but nothing on 
> the
> main VFO.  I moved 9-1 back to 13 but still nothing even after moving it 
> up
> to 31.  If I find a big signal 20 over 9 I can get the main VFO S-meter to
> read a S-9 but nothing more than that.  The signal is booming and sounds
> like a 20 over signal but the meter isn't corresponding.  This doesn't 
> seem
> normal, any comments?
>
> By the way, anyone interested in my INRAD IF mod let me know, $25.00 
> postage
> paid in US.
>
> Dennis KI8U
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