Windom is 20’ outside, pretty perpendicular to the house . No problem at 500W.
Sent from my iPad > On Jan 4, 2021, at 5:22 PM, Jon Poland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is the Windom in your attic or outside? My guess is that your antenna is > parallel to the house wiring, and is inducing a current on the ground or > neutral wire. A replacement AFCI breaker might fix the problem. Or a heavy > choke on the AC. > > This may or may not be your situation. Most newer houses run all electric > wires from the breaker box up into the attic and back down to wherever they > need to be. At least in single-story homes. That puts the attic antenna > close to the unshielded house wiring. > > In my house, it wasn't the AFCI that would go nuts, but the doorbell would > ring when I went over 35 Watts on 20m. I had to install a choke on the > doorbell wire to stop that. Now, every time I transmit, I imagine the > doorbell or smoke detector going off in my neighbor's 2-story next to me. > > jon N0WL > >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 2:32 PM Tom Doligalski via Elecraft >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Should have mentioned that there up is no trouble at 25 watts. >> >> Certainly no trouble at 100 watts back at Field Day. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> > On Jan 4, 2021, at 12:57 PM, Tom Doligalski <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Over the last several weeks I’ve been having problems with the arc fault >> > detector (AFCI) in my fusebox.This does not control the power to the >> > shack, but to our garage door operners. >> > >> > It seemed random at first, but I think I’ve tracked it down a bit. >> > >> > Running an Elecraft K3/KPA500/KAT500 combo. The AFCI ONLY trips when on 80 >> > CW, running 100 watts (the KPA500 in standby bode). If the KPA500 is ON >> > (running 500 watts) there is no problem. >> > >> > Seems fine on other bands…. >> > >> > 80M antenna is a Carolina Windom. The usual baluns/line isolator/grounding >> > stuff. >> > >> > Any ides? >> > >> > Kinda worried that there is an issue with the 100 W amp in the K3. >> > >> > 73. >> > >> > Tom W4KX >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
