I would just like to say a big thank you to you and the channel. I took my Foundation exam this morning and passed with flying colours. Watching your channel over the past few weeks has been a tremendous help and inspiration to get involved. You explain things very well....
Another good video! Every in line connector, adapter, ground block, surge protector, antenna tuner is a place for a problem. I've had bad lightening arresters, brand new, cause issues out of the box. I worked for the cable company for years, and troubleshooting always started with eliminating as many factors as possible, including replacing fittings and barrels. An incorrectly prepped cable with a poorly installed fitting was very common, as 1 strand of braid would wrap the center conductor. Very hard to see at first glance. Keep the videos coming!
Very clear informed and easy to listen to. No errrr and "you know" and best of all no rap music. You should have been on here years ago Peter. If only all you tube was like this I would be a genius by now! Thank you , Mike from Manchester.
All good advice as usual Peter. A couple of things that may help is that, to check for open circuit on your co-ax, if you don't have a dummy load, just short the plug shell to centre. If all us well, at the other end you shouldn't measure more than a few ohms of resistance. Also, for anyone who is not a CW operator, one alternative to RBN is WSPR - a fantastic tool for assessing antennas on receive and transmit. BTW, would be interested to know a little bit more about the antenna in your article.
Thank you. Best advice I got from electronics techs is to read the manual carefully and take notes. Manuals do have errors. Even call and talk with the manufacturer's technical staff. Also contact other equipment users- they may have found and fixed a problem you have not even considered. Thanks again. N0QFT
I had this happen to me. I had an army stick that I used on ten. not much action out there, but I desided to hook up a C B. it had a warning on it. well the end of the coax had got water in it. I'm glad I to the ten meter out of line and hooked up the cb mobile. I have other antennas. I took this stick down to find it was the cable.
@@watersstanton faulty? How? Basically all aerials are a length of conductor with a connector somewhere along it. The connector may or may not be earthed/grounded or may have some form of ground plane. There's little their to be faulty. A stray strand might earth the active element or you may have d dry solder joint. Other than that whats to be the cause,of a fault?
I have a Diamond CP6S running with an Icom 7300 - I measured the loading coils but still not resonant on 80m as have the radials in a 180 configuration due to height restrictions from the Body Corporate on the housing estate I live on so very limited on 80m and even using the built in tuner still will not SWR so put in an external MFJ ATU and get the SWR as good as I can and the radio tunes the rest - but still on 80m have trouble getting signals 20km north but on 40m can work up to Far North Queensland, Japan and NZ.. 80m - you need that antenna high!
Hi Danny. it is possible that the antenna is resident at the very low end of 8 to metres in the CW section. check the VSWRat the bottom of the band. If this is the case very carefully cut off 2cm at a time and reche k 80m. If 2cm has no effect then that is nit the problem but it is quite common for 80m resonance to be at the bottom of the band. 73 Peter
Some great advice there , it’s very easy to panic when often the answer is very simple I often use web sdr in uk as well as USA for checking propagation , these are also useful for checking antennas , great video once again, cheers de 2e0nbk
Really enjoy the style and content of your videos. Only wish it was suitable for me to do business with you across the pond (shipping, exchange rate ....). Hope to soon return to the UK and visit with my friend Norman (Middlesex, SW of London), G0OSX, at his home. Will represent 3rd time since 1990's.
Hello, I found your article here: worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical/Wireless/60s/PW-1965-05.pdf They have all of the issues in pdf form online. I am always interested in looking at different antenna designs. Looking forward to reading it. It may be what I have been looking for to get on 80 meters on the small lot I have. I love looking through these old magazines to see what people were up to and the equipment available in the past. Another great video, thank you.
All common sense, to me anyway, though to someone new it might be a Godsend. I put up a CB aerial and thought there was something wrong as I was not getting anyone, hearing anyone. SWR was fine, checked the cable and aerial, all fine and thought "Very odd" it was because there was no one there as I found out later (around seven hours later) when I got a loan of a SSB CB and made it into Costa Rica with 12 watts SSB and on the same aerial. So just goes to show, the reason I was not getting anyone is because there was no one there! Then I had to take the aerial down again before I was told to by the landlord! ;-(( Still working on getting permission for some aerials, but Covid is getting n the way of a decision :-((
