*/Chris/*
You have seen several posts with good advice. If you want to do an
easy test to localize where the failure may be, you can do it with a
dummy load.
First put the dummy load at the rig. Check to see if all is OK, if
not, blame the rig.
Then check the coax - connect the dummy load at the end of your coax
(replacing the remote tuner).
*/Good advice all, I was running brand new Belden RG213U coax to a
diamond dual band antenna did the connectors both ends, did the pull 75'
saw the same situation .......hum can't be the coax it brand new off the
reel must be my connector installation.....replaced both (Amphenol
connectors again) what it was was a fault in the *brand new coax* I
found the fault cut it out made up a couple of shorter runs from the
original piece I cut for the radio to antenna run. /*
If the problem shows up, then blame the coax.
*/Yep don't rule out anything ............/*
If all is still OK with the dummy load at the end of the coax, you can
blame the tuner, balun or the antenna or RF getting onto the coax
outer shield. Look for evidence of arcing, make sure all connections
are solid - then try adding a K9YC type current mode choke near the
entry point entry to the shack to choke RF coming in on the outside of
the coax braid.
*/Regards
Art
ka9zap
/*
On 2/24/2018 12:42 AM, Chris Hallinan wrote:
Greetings from southwest Florida.
My KPA500 is kicking out with REFL HI warning (high SWR). But here
is the
strangeness. My setup is K3->KPA500->40' coax->MFJ 600W remote tuner
-> 4:1
balun -> open wire feedline to 80-meter doublet. In words, I have a
remote
autotuner feeding an 80-meter doublet fed with 600-ohm open wire
line. A
Balun Designs 4:1 balun provides the interface from the open wire
line to
the tuner.
With the autotuner tuned at low power, the SWR shows 1.5:1 on my
KPA500 and
external SWR meter. As I run the power up to 300, 400, 500 watts,
somewhere in there all of a sudden the SWR instantly jumps off the
scale,
into the red LEDs on KPA500, and it faults. It's as if the SWR were
dependent on power.
Even stranger, when I back the power off to say 250 Watts, holding
key down
the SWR is stable in the green (<1.5:1), but when I key it at CW
rates, the
SWR bounces into the red on every dit and eventually faults, when at
steady
state key down it never leaves the green zone!
I fear it is the tuner falling over, but it should be able to handle the
power. I see this on all bands from 80-20.
Operating into my 20-meter resonant vertical, with no tuner, everything
works fine.
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