I have been hooking up a G5RV Lite & I am hooking up the antenna twin lead balanced line to an elecraft wideband HF balun I built which then connects to a little Opek SWR meter & then to the T1 which connects to the radio, either a K1 or an FT817ND. (Described in reverse direction.)
At first, I had a problem with a short coax connector that was not conducting due to a broken PL259 connector so I removed that & converted it to have two lugs to connect the balun to the end of the antenna feed line's SO239. When I put it all together at home & started testing conductivity & ruling out any shorts or breaks, I noticed conductivity between the shields & the center feed. I finally isolated it to the T1 & wherever I test the outer to the inner leads of the BNC connectors, there is no resistance & they all conduct. Something is wrong with this recently purchased pre-built unit, wouldn't you agree? I just want to be sure about this before I call &/or send it back for some repair so I thought I would check to see what anyone thinks or might suggest. I don't think there is anything that I could have done to cause this but one never knows, I guess. Could I have done something to create a short in the tuner by hooking it up improperly at one time or another, possibly? I would hate to think that these instruments are that 'fragile' but then again I am not that experienced, yet, being a ‘rookie’. Any suggestions or comments are welcome. Thank you, *Sidney * * * (K6DMT)** ______________________________________________________________ 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
