On 12/30/2013 12:48 PM, Buck - k4ia wrote:
I had a similar issue. Drove me crazy. Then one day I put my hand on
the PL259 on my antenna switch and noticed it was warm. Swapped out the
90 degree connector on the coax and problem solved. The high power from
the amp must have been causing a fault in the connector.
Lesson 1. Check all your connections.
Lesson 2. Stop buying cheap coax connectors
Yep. The only ones I've been using are Amphenol with the silver
plating. The solder well, and I've had no problems since I gave up on
the "offshore" ones at RS.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
"The problem with Lessons Learned is that they rarely are."
Leo Endres, philosopher/engineer/colleague
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