As Jim Brown says: if all these problems came on suddenly, focus on what parts of the installation have CHANGED.
You may well have identified one: > >Right now I am thinking that I have a bad coax line outside of the >house. The reason for this is that I had a new propane tank installed >and they needed to back the truck up and had to drive over the buried >coax. I did put boards down to spread out the load and protect the >lawn and also the coax. However the problem has started since this >incident. > >I pulled the coax out of the ground and it has bend marks at the edges >where the boards were which to means that it was deformed and maybe it >is now crushed. > Is there any chance that the shield has been pulled apart, and is now completely open-circuit? A broken shield connection can be a major cause of RFI, as RF currents can appear in very odd places in their search for a new return path. How would a TDR respond to a broken shield? "Installation-dependent", I suppose... -- 73 from Ian GM3SEK http://www.ifwtech.co.uk/g3sek ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
