[SixClub] Tuning & Measuring 6M Signals with MFJ's?

[kd4e]

OK, I feel D.U.M.B.!!!

I used to own a FT-857D and that had a separate
connector for 2/440.

I got this before we moved and rarely used it.

I only recently pulled it out of the box and
didn't even notice the second connector hidden
below the power connector ... in the dark ...

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!

Pete, NL7XM, rescued me from my carelessness ...
full scale reading ... so Alinco dummy-proofed
it and used the HF side to keep a safety load
on 6M.

:-)

Jerry W9FS club#66 wrote:
> Are you trying it on SSB? Try talking into the mic!
> Or switch to CW or FM or lower power AM... Something with carrier!
> 
> Jerry 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kd4e [mailto:doc at kd4e.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2010 6:37 PM
> To: 6n2mtrham at comcast.net; World Wide Six Meter Club
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] Tuning & Measuring 6M Signals with MFJ's?
> 
> It looks fine on the rig indicator but putting either the RS or the MFJ
> meter in-line results in no reading.
> 
> I had the MFJ-941D on bypass and the MFJ-920 also has a bypass switch.  No
> joy.
> 
> Band is dead so it's a good afternoon, during breaks in planting the garden,
> to test things out!
> 
> BTW:  How does one know for certain that they have the T or TH version?  The
> pictures I see online show them all with only DX-70 on the faceplate.  The
> low 6M output makes me wonder if I was lied to and this is a 70T and not a
> 70TH.
> 
>> Try it straight through to a dummy load!
>>
>> Jerry W9FS
>>
>>
>> I am checking out the TX side of my Alinco DX-70TH.
>>
>> I have a MFJ-902 "Travel Tuner" which I hooked to a Radio Shack 
>> digital meter 21-0527 -- I get no TX reading on 6M at all -- though 
>> the rig meter indicates output.
>>
>> So I tried my MFJ-941D -- same result.
>>
>> Is it possible that the Radio Shack digital meter 21-0527 and the 
>> MFJ-941D would detect zero output on 6M?
>>
>> Both meters appear to function fine up through 10m.
>>
>> I know they are not designed for 6M but most meters will give some 
>> sort of reading up to 2M, albeit not terribly accurate.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
> 

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