Hi, y'all, I've been active on the cruiser's net here in Abaco, and this morning one of the neighboring boats with a radio and antenna guru aboard called me after to say that after about a minute of continuous transmission I got faint, though still very clear. Another station chimed into the conversation to say they had the same result. The original boat is right next to me, so distance or atmospheric stuff was not a factor
His opinion was either corrosion in the cable which might have an effect, or the radio heating up from continuous tx. As I'm heading back to the states with a pretty big to-do list shortly, for a month, I could send it off to Uniden for a look. In another forum, during our discussion on anomalies with this radio in a different installation, since proven to be the cable in the mast, another user posted that he isn't a great fan of this particular radio, citing other problems which increased over time. Anyone else have this experience with this or other radios, identified it as something other than the radio, and have the solution? My antenna feed for the current installation runs in our bilge, and our rudder post is currently in need of repacking, sending a constant stream of water down the bilge/limberholes, where I expect there's at least one connection. While that and any other connex are professionally done, I expect some water COULD have penetrated. I'll have a look at that, first, but would appreciate experienced input. Thanks, y'all L8R Skip, in the Bahamas for another few days before a month ashore -- 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
