[SixClub] Odd Rig Behavior on 6M

[Roger (K8RI) on Six]

> Just attached my LDG AT-897 autotuner to the side of my
> Yaesu FT-897D and 6M is behaving badly (voltage drops to
> 9.7VDC on the rig but my large deep cycle battery is fully
> charged and has an Astron VS-50M floating across it).

Hmmm...Something is not right here, but I guess that's already assumed.<:-))

I'm assuming that you are running the normal #10 or #8 wire from the battery 
to the radio. Of course assumptions are never safe, but if you are running 
the normal power cable (I'll have to check, but I think my 897D uses #10) 
The amount of current needed to drop the actual voltage at the rig from a 
fully charged *large* lead acid batter would fry the insulation off the 
cable in seconds.
>
> I have a West Mountain Radio PWRgate PG40 handling
> the battery-powerstrip-power supply interface and

> am using a Rigrunner 4010S power strip.

It may be good equipment, but very time I see the name "Rigrunner" it makes 
me think of cheap CB equipment.
>

I would assume the above is the interface between the battery and the power 
supply and you run the rig directly off the batter. I'd not do it any other 
way.  I trickly charge the battery to keep it topped off, if the output of 
the battery goes through any switching there are too many places for RF to 
get in.

> I don't see this on any other band nor do I see it
> with CW or Packet selected, only the modulated
> modes, so I am guessing something is getting into
> something else and am eliminating possible causes
> one device at a time.

>
> Anyone heard of this behavior on 6M?
>
Nope. Mine in the shop is working better than the Icom 756 Pro tied to a 7L 
yagi at 115 feet. Of course the rotator is out so the yagi is stuck to the 
NW which really cuts down on my options for directions.

> I believe that my LDG AT-897D firmware version
> is 2.1

Mine is what ever came in the rig which I purchased new this Spring.
I say this as the 897D is my shop rig and I'm in the house. I have it 
*almost* set up to drive a Henry 2K4 with a Hy-Gain Patriot vertical monted 
at 32 feet.  The system works great on all bands except 20 where it appears 
to be a dummy load not only for transmit but receive as well. I think the 
antenna problem is a function of being mounted at 32 feet.

My SWAG would be some RF is getting back into the system and the leads to 
the battery may be just the right length to prevent the battery as serving 
as a very large capacitor which would normally keep RF out of the power 
leads.

>
> -- 
>
> Thanks! & 73,
> doc, KD4E
> ... somewhere in FL
> URL:  bibleseven (dot) com
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