[Boatanchors] Weirdo!

[Ken]

Fellows,

Here is one for the books! I don't begin to try to explain it. You figgure
it out!

My Midland Model 23-126 Standing Wave Bridge quit reading reflected power!
In "Forward" it adjusts ok but when I switch to "Reflected" the needle goes
to
about midscale and remains there regardless.

I discovered by experimenting, that in Forward if I dipped the two tuning
condensers on the Johnson Antenna Tuner, not the KW model, the signal
reported was good, best I had been getting.
By bringing the needle up with the adjust potentiometer and then dipping,

stations report my signal up and good. The transmitter is a Central
Electronics
100V.
Reminds me of "dipping the final plate on an amplifier".

Something in the SWR Bridge circuit has changed that results in this weird
effect I presume. It is not acting like a field strength meter which you
would
tune for maximum reading!

Puzzled! Take care,

Ken   N5CM