I have seen that happen on ham radios before. Almost always something in the receive section.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Flying Pig Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF antenna anomaly From: "Densler, Vernon R (IT Solutions)" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 8:40 AM Subject: Re: [Liveaboard] VHF antenna anomaly > Doesn't sound like an antenna or cable problem. If you were in > Melbourne I could hook up my antenna analyzer and tell you for sure. > > Anyway it sounds like it's the receiver on the radio. Could be a few > things. Desense is one possibility. Could be some electronics on the > boat that is doing it. Did you add anything new? Another possibility > is that the radio has some corrosion in the helicoils in the receive > section. And lastly if you had someone very close by to you > transmitting on the same channel you are listening to at high power then > it could have blown out the receive. > > Again if you were in Melbourne I could put the radio on the service > monitor and tell you what the receive looks like. > > If it is an antenna or cable problem and you are transmitting with it > like that you will be sure to blow out the transmit side real soon. Do > you have an emergency antenna? If not can you get one? That would be > one way to see if you get the same thing with a different antenna > system. > > Vern > s/v Nirvelli > I'm working on getting an extension to connect to the helm antenna feed; it works fine (but the helm radio crapped out a couple of days ago, too!). The oddity is that we tx just fine, and some channels do just fine on rx... L8R Skip Morgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig KI4MPC See our galleries at www.justpickone.org/skip/gallery ! Follow us at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheFlyingPigLog and/or http://groups.google.com/group/flyingpiglog "You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it however." (and) "There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hand (Richard Bach) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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