Hi Gary, use the distance-to-fault mode in your MFJ 259B. I believe it is in the advanced mode section. Most likely the problem is at the connector at the far end of the coax.
73, Jim w8zr Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:14 PM, Gary Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Something happened tonight with the coax and now the SWR is very high > on all bands. The Coax is 350' of RG213/U, it runs under the leaves & > is buried under the snow. It terminates into the remote switching > section of an Ameritron RCS-8V where the 5 outlets lead to 5 separate > wire antennas. > > I connected a dummy load to the coax in the shack and checked the > coax at the remote switch with a MFJ-259B analyzer and the SWR was > above 6. I replaced the connector at the shack end with no benefit. > On 160M where it normally resonates at 1.4 it now reads 7.5 > > As it happened tonight & was working till a couple of hours ago, I > looked for signs of an animal's digging in the snow along the route > the coax takes but saw nothing like that. I'd hate to dig up the > whole length of coax to try and find the affected area with the > ground frozen. I still haven't found any hardline and it would be a > waste to buy new coax when I'm wanting to have hardline instead. > > Is there is a way the information available in the LP-100A in the > shack or the MFJ-259B can be used to locate the defective area? > > Never a good time for coax/antenna problems, in the snow is not a > plus. > > Thanks! > > Gary > KA1J > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > _________________ > Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband _________________ Topband Reflector Archives - http://www.contesting.com/_topband
