[EIDXA] Waht are you seeing DQ

[Richard Heinrich]

Scott,

My only comment is that 9913 is notorious for filling with water.  Do you
have a coax problem?

Does not explain the signal peaks and valleys.

Rick
On Feb 10, 2015 1:05 AM, "Scott and Lisa Augsburger" <
augsburger at iowatelecom.net> wrote:

> Hey All,
>      It seems like every night of the K1N around sunset (gray line) the
> band opened up from S0 - S1 to S9 then I could work the heck out of them
> for about a 15 minute
>
> window then the band drops out or something drops out. I normally run
> about 60 watts all the time except in big pile ups then the Alpha is kicked
> in running about 1100 watts to 900 watts in to tribander.
>
> 4 years ago the tower was cleaned off in the winter and antennas replaced
> in the Spring with a new Cushcraft D3W warc dipole, Cushcraft XM2-40 and
>
> WB0MCO and I rebuilt the KT-34 XA with the rebuild kit from M2 and new 5
> KW balun from Array Solutions.  500 feet of new Belden 9913F installed, new
> Belden Rotor cable and new 6 port antenna switch
>
> from Array Solutions. Plus all new Belden 9913F cabling inside the house
> and Polyphaser grounding equipment inside and outside. So I am not sure
> what's taking place that's way I was asking
>
> like something was going wrong but I don't know what.  The weird thing was
> the K1N was around S0 to S3 all day yesterday (Sunday) and last night I
> worked E50A and he reported
>
> I was S9 +20 and he was around S9+10 on 20 phone and then I worked 9M2RDX
> on 15 CW both around 2:00  GMT. The 9M2 was the only signal on the band I
> could hear and he was just above
>
> the noise level.  Right now at 11:15 PM Monday K1N is S9 +40 on 40 meters
> I almost need to add some attenution 20 dB.  My tower is 72 feet from the
> ground up and 25 feet above the tower is the mast.
>
> I have a 18 foot W9IIX ladder mast plus some 2 inch alum conduit above
> that for the rotary dipole.  The only thing I didn't replace on the multi
> year rebuild was the Drake MN-2000 and Alpha amp.
>
> Plus new Rig in September 2014 Icom 7800 (early retirement gift to me).
> The old 781s power supply dumped after 21 years of use. Icom just laughed
> at me when I talked to them about fixing or parts.
>
>
> Here's another wierd thing that has been going on for years:  With Hygain
> (Lincoln special) TH7 old and KLM KT-34XA new same QTH and same height the
> only thing differant is the year it was on my tower.
>
> Both were new out of the box. The KLM/M2 KT-34 was has a standing wave of
> 1.5:1 on 15,20 and 1.3:1 on 10 mtrs for the 18 years.
>
> My S reading: S0 to S3 I can hear them but can't normally work them.
> Sometimes this statement isn't true.
>
> My S reading: S5 to S7 talk to them with their report to me of S9 +10
>
> My S reading: S9 +10 talk to them with their report to me of S9+20
>
> Thanks for looking at this
> Scott
>
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