Hi Tony, The open wire feeder was at fault as the route I had used had a bend which made a parallel path and when I straightened this out the issue went away.
All is now as it should....:-) Thanks for the info mate. Gary On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Tony Estep <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 12/05/2010 11:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > From: Gary Gregory<[email protected]> > > >...using a double extended zepp I find it tunes all bands except 20M > > > consistently but for a couple of weeks it has been fine. > > > > > > The KAT3 will tune to 1.1:1 BUT the swr meter fluctuates... > > Gary, in my case the fluctuating SWR indication turned out to be > attributable to my station ground setup. It seems that just a small amount > of RF on the feedline can create this symptom. My non-resonant antenna > comes > into a balun, then the coax goes through a line isolator, and thence to the > rig. There is a counterpoise arrangement connected at the balun which has > served satisfactorily to ground everything with a couple of antennas. > However, when I put up a new one, I got the symptom you describe. Some > tweaking of the grounding scheme completely cured it. > > Tony KT0NY > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679, P3 #546 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
