[Icom] Intermittent swr

[Tony Hwang]

Hi,
First do you have a dummu load?  Put a 100 Ohm resistor at the end of=20
your coax and measure the resistance with meter at the radio end. Let=20
some one watch the meter and start wiggling the coax from one end to the =

other, found something?
73,
Tony, VE6CGX

Ed wrote:

>Wow. I'm stumped. I'm running an  IC 706 mkII g in my mini van with an o=
utbacker stealth plus on a tri mag mount on top. Everything was hunky dor=
y until all of a sudden my swr has been very intermittent. Up on minute d=
own the next. I tune with rtty and one time it will show on swr then infi=
nity. This has happend on both 80 and 40 and I haven't checked it on othe=
r bands yet but I suspect the same will happen. There seems to be somethi=
ng loose in the system. I removed the tuner from in line took off the spr=
ing and quick disconnect from the antenna and have checked all connection=
s including the wander lead and stinger on the antenna. I can't seem to f=
ind anything wrong. It still is very intermittent and squirelly [ if that=
's a word]. Could there be something in the radio itself or am I just mis=
sing something extremely simple. This was not a problem until all of a su=
dden and I can't think of anything recent that could have happened to the=
 system. Any suggestions or thoughts would be appreciated.=20
>ED AND CARRIE YEARY=20
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