Well it started out troubleshooting why I had bad SWR with the new 20m
dipole I put up. And (of course) it was the RG-58 coax jumper I had
used for umpteen years without trouble. So realizing that my broken
tri-band yagi might not be broken, I tried 20m and it tuned up nice with
my KXPA100/KXAT100. SWR was about 3.9 without tuning (very old trap yagi).
So I listened to the FD a bit on SSB then tuned in FT8 on 14.074 (wholly
Moses, the bandwidth was clobbered with signals). So with only 100w I
tried a few contacts. In the last two hours of FD, I made 11-contacts
(and messed up 12). Best was working BH2UEZ in PM08 (China) with my
yagi pointed East.
worked: BC,UWA,SV,SCV,UT,WY,LAX, and OR. About an hour at 100w the amp
started faulting (surmised over-temp and lowered power to 30w, finally
running my k3/10 barefoot). Also checked 15m and 10m for tuning (all
good). Maybe the "old girl" still has some kicks!
Other news I am building a MRF 1K50H LMOS HF/6m amp. Cited at 1200w, it
will replace my Harris ch.2 TV amp that I use on 6m. When new amp is
running I will sell the Harris with the HP 50v PS I have been using
(bought a new Meanwell RSP-3000-48 to replace it).
Getting ready to pour concrete to re-set my 2m-eme tower.
73, Ed - KL7UW (1D AK)
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