[ICOM] AH4 Flaky on 160 Meters.

[k0sd at juno.com]

Bert,
   The AH4 is rated 6m through 80 meters.   The AH2 is rated 10m - 160m. 
 The AH4 is not engineered for 160.   I've heard of people getting it to
work, but it is outside it's design parameters.

73's de Stephen, K0SD in FL

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On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 02:18:07 -0500 "Bert Morton"
<hamradioguy at vermontel.net> writes:
> My AH4 is acting a little flaky on 160.
> 
> When I first try tuning on 160 I seem to have random spots where it
> doesn't want to tune as well as random spots where it will . Once I 
> find
> a spot that it will tune, it will subsequently tune most anywhere on 
> the
> band.
> 
> Is this normal ? 160 is the only band where I am experiencing this.
> 
> Thanks and 73,
> 
> Bert
> 
> p.s. I am using a 145 foot random wire and a 155 foot counterpoise.
> 
> 
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