[Elecraft] fails on 30m only THANKS TO TAX !!!

[Bill Steffey NY9H]

I wiggled all connections & conections,  then I took a small 50ohm load 
and inserted it at the few points from the radio thru my  TopTen relay 
setup    2 radios by two amps to 6 ants ( 5 ants & 1 dummy load).  The 
culprit was my big palstar auto tuner while off , was NOT in bypass.  
With that set properly all is good. Hopefully the only screwup made 
while reconfiguring my station.... my stay at home project.

stay safe Jim....


bill/3


On 4/7/2020 7:59 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 4/7/2020 12:43 PM, Bill Steffey NY9H wrote:
>> Bob prompted what was my next step ..one short jumper to the load..
>
> Expeditioners that do lots of portable setups have repeatedly preached 
> that when anything goes wrong in a radio system to ALWAYS suspect a 
> bad piece of coax, and usually a bad or poorly installed connector.
>
> Back in the days when I was doing lots of live recording and sound 
> reinforcement gigs, it was mic cables. A standard test was to plug a 
> mic into the mixer with the cable(s) to test, listen on headphones 
> with the gain up, and "rattle" both ends and the cable itself to 
> expose any faults. To test coax cables, I'd do something equivalent 
> with low power into a dummy load and watching SWR at the rig.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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