[K3PZN-List] Nice 10 meter opening tonight!!!

[Andy Leeds]

 From your description it seems like you might have an antenna problem 
or a rig problem or both. I'd suggest testing one of those at a time, 
that should let you isolate the problem.

If we start with the antenna there are two simple tests I can see - use 
an analyzer to sweep it and check the match or substitute another rig 
temporarily and see how that behaves.

For the radio side the first thing that comes to mind is to use a dummy 
load in place of the antenna and see how the rig behaves then. I can 
loan you a dummy load if you don't have one for this test.

Based on your description of the problem it sounds more radio than 
antenna to me, but that's a guess.

Andy

ARC wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Not sure exactly what time it opened up but, 10 meters opened up for about
> an hour or so tonight (1930-2030 give or take), at least as long as I was
> listening. Listened to some good QSO's, unfortunately my rig is not fairing
> well on the 10 meter band so, I had to forego transmitting. I even watched
> some PSK31 QSO's going on around 28.100 for a bit with fldigi on the laptop,
> plugged into the speaker jack of my Kenwood. Hearing beacons from the
> mid-west and up in the Illinois areas. Florida was coming in rather nicely
> as well... Fun to hear the band coming alive tonight...
>
> I really need to get some help with the 10 meter band. The rig works really
> nicely on 20 and 40 meters without problems. SWR is right around 1.3:1 so,
> I'm ok with those two bands but, the 10 meter band is giving me fits...
>
> I am starting to think that it's something with the radio and not the
> dipole. I have been told that fan dipole bands can cause problems for each
> other although I am doubtful that this is an antenna problem just because of
> the fact that 20 and 40 have nice smooth movements on the bridge when keyed
> up. When I key up on 10 meters, the bridge goes crazy, flickering back and
> forth (without speaking into the mic at all). One other thought I had was
> that maybe there's something wrong with the bridge at that freq? I do notice
> that the lights on the radio flicker a little while the bridge is going
> crazy and I don't key up for more than a couple seconds since I don't want
> to cause any problems with it or at least any more...
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
> Anthony KB3RJH 
>
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