Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread Adrian
@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160 My old friend N8PR(SK) had a similar problem. Peter QTH was few miles for a AM station. The SPE amp is very sensitive, the signal from the AM station was strong enough to trip the amp. The solution was a 2 KW high pass filter to attenuate 30 db

Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread Ian Fugler
[mailto:topband-bounces+zen90387=zen.co...@contesting.com] On Behalf Of Jose_Carlos Sent: 29 October 2021 16:17 To: WW3S; FZ Bruce Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160 My old friend N8PR(SK) had a similar problem. Peter QTH was few miles for a AM station. The SPE amp is very

Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread Jose_Carlos
for Windows From: WW3S Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 11:06 AM To: FZ Bruce Cc: topband@contesting.com Subject: Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160 I have toroids on all the cables….and even started pulling cables out of the shack to see if it made a difference….im beginning to wonder if the amp

Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread WW3S
rom: "WW3S" > To: "topband@contesting.com" > Cc: > Sent: Friday October 29 2021 10:44:39AM > Subject: Topband: amp tripping on 160 > > After two great nights of being able to receive, I am beyond frustrated, > as I cannot transmitsomething happened recent

Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread FZ Bruce
: "WW3S" To: "topband@contesting.com" Cc: Sent: Friday October 29 2021 10:44:39AM Subject: Topband: amp tripping on 160 After two great nights of being able to receive, I am beyond frustrated, as I cannot transmitsomething happened recently, and I cannot figure it out.

Re: Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread Tim Shoppa
If everything is fine at lower power but trips at higher power, it could be RFI. But I would suspect an arcover somewhere. It sounds like your feedpoint is low impedance but there can be arcovers on the insulator at the end of your L, too. Or if your L is spaced off from the tower with

Topband: amp tripping on 160

2021-10-29 Thread WW3S
After two great nights of being able to receive, I am beyond frustrated, as I cannot transmitsomething happened recently, and I cannot figure it out... I suspect its RFI, but not sure why.as soon as I transmit on my Inverted L, my SPE 1.3KFA amp trips, saying SWRT exceeds