Last week Monday I received K4 SN0110. The Brown Truck came at about 2 PM. That morning I had checked into an 80M net using my trusty K3. For 8)M is use an inverted V. All was well.
Monday afternoon was a frenzy of setting up and using the new K4. Pretty easy setup. All week long I used the K4. All was good, but I was disappointed at signal strengths on 80M. I kept thinking that the K4 just couldn’t receive well on 80M! Yesterday I was out in the back doing yard work. That’s when I noticed that the support ropes on BOTH ends of the 80M inverted V had failed, and the the antenna was lying on the ground! We had had a storm come through here Monday mid-day, and my supposition is that the support ropes had failed. I restored the support ropes, and low and below the K4 works well on 80M again! I normally would have noticed the change in SWR, and realized that I had an antenna problem. But, of course, I had tuned the K4 for the first time on 80M when I received it! A learning moment (operator error?). Gonna try to check the antennas out a bit more frequently! 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]
