Mike this very same thing happened on a 47Mhz simplex base station - poor range, high vswr. Fold over monopole. Dummy load, still bad, replaced RG8 between the building and the antenna, still bad. Pulled a little cable from the building and there is was - RG8 blown up due to lightning. Steve NU5D
Mike Besemer (WM4B) wrote: > > This is a follow up to my original post. > > > > The tower crew showed up yesterday to swap out the antenna. Once at > the top of the water tank, we had them connect a dummy load to the top > of the feedline and discovered that the feedline itself had a poor VSWR. > > >
