[450] Part Duex

[John Foege]

Sure its not just the meter?
On Jan 12, 2016 5:54 PM, "David Garcia" <wb2rxf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Got in touch with AES via email, about the vertical, which told me to call
> comet, He said the pin should slide out and be easily accessible. So I went
> to the roof in a rush to get this done before the snow squall came in, and
> sure enough I took it down and tapped that bottom part a ledge as you see
> where the antenna is leaning and it slid down and I connected the pin and
> stud via the allen screws, laid out the new coax and dropped it down. I
> have to say, It's hears surprisingly well, so much so I'm getting intermod
> on 2 meters now its not horrendous but a nu-sense, and mount beacon is full
> scale to 40 over, never heard it at all with a vertical, only when the beam
> was vertically polarized. I'm seeing its give and take at the moment, the
> swr has very sharp curves at specific frequencies move up one and its a 2.0
> move down 15kc and its 1.2 and the other way around & towards the upper
> part of the band on 2 its weird, if I put the meter for high power the swrs
> are normal all around, if I have it set for checking 30 watts and under the
> swr is jumping, so which is actual is questionable at the moment. Mt carmel
> repeater is about 10 over and beacon is well you know, it use to be full
> scale on the x30 until it went caterwampers. I'm not complaining though,
> for the time being its receiving really well in many areas and 95% of the
> repeaters I use to access are back and much stronger. Gotta see on the next
> trip up about getting this swr issue resolved, its certainly a hell of a
> lot better than it was, but still needs a little woyk. Thats the story
> gents.
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