Hello, Hello I have a Micor UHF repeater station on amateur. I have had it tuned and tested perfect since last fall. I sent my elements to Bomar and had them temperature compensated and all that good stuff. After the repeater has set out in the garage all winter, (unheated, in Indiana) I powered it up today to find that the transmitter didn't appear to be working. After some tests I found that the element was off frequency. I tuned back to frequency and tested. It stayed on frequency for about 2 minutes and then drifted off about 40 Kc. From that point on it would not tune up. I installed the crystal in another element and it tuned right up and stayed that way for the hour that I left it running before I had to leave. I am wondering if it was as simple as the element being bad or maybe something else going on. If it is just the element, I wonder why it just decided to take a dump???
Any thoughts? Thanks -Jordan
