[Antennas] cushcrap R-7000 or Yaesu watt meter.
paul
[email protected]
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 01:30:31 -0500
hi john... read the eham reviews about the r7000.... remember the ford
pinto? the chevy corvair(unsafe at any speed?)? lead based paint?
firestone tires? oh welllll ....paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Luthy" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:09 AM
Subject: [Antennas] cushcrap R-7000 or Yaesu watt meter.
> My wonderful antenna Or my Yaesu watt meter and pissed off my whole
> family
>> Seems somthing isn't quite able to perform up to the task is is
> advertised to do.
>> All I asked of it was to TX on 40m at 700 watts with a SWR of 1.4 , I
> don't think this is out of line as it is supposed to be able to handle
> 1.5kw .... all was well for about 15 min. of 50% duty on RTTY . was
> calling CQ on 40 .... 8 seconds on ...10 seconds off. When all of a
> sudden the smoke alarm goes off. and I see a cloud of smoke rising
> from my watt meter. I quicky disconected the coax (burning my fingers
> in the process) and cut the DC line to the meter. Then tossing the
> meter from hand to hand like a hot potato I finaly got it outside. But
> not before I filled the house with the rancid smell of burnning
> circut boards.
>> After the smoke cleared I checked the SWR on the antenna and It is
> about 15:1 on 40m it was 1.7:1 before. the "fire". My Infrared temp
> guage showes a noticable rise in temp in the area of the 40m trap on
> the "antenna"
>> Now I have been using the watt meter for 2 years with the setup I have
> and have been able to run 1kw on 20m rtty to the mosley TA-33 with no
> problem.
>> I was told that this "antenna" is not very good and is prone to trap
> failures.
>> So the question to the folks with more experiance than me is........
> what went first
>>> BTW the station is
> IC 746
> TA-33
> R-7000
> SB-220
> bunch 'o'wires
> and "$$$"
>> KF6QCQ
> john with only 96 points in the rtty ru contest. ..... booooo
> whhhooooooooo
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