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

[Bob McGraw K4TAX]

One basic rule from the TAX man.........more crap = more problems.   
Always has been, always will be.

73

Bob, K4TAX


On 4/7/2020 11:07 PM, Bill Steffey NY9H wrote:
> 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....
>
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> bill/3
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> 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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