[Tech-Assist] STL problem now critical

Dave Riddle enginr at windstream.net
Wed Mar 28 09:09:19 CDT 2012


I went to a problematic two-way site once and discovered that three of his 
duplexer jumpers were made from brown Teflon 75 ohm hamfest-quality coax. 
That was the problem.

>I installed a new 950 STL and had a vswr problem.  It turned out the jumper
> from the hard line to the antenna was RG-11 (75 ohms) about 2 1/2' long
> causing the reflected and some strange readings.  Everything smoothed out
> when I put in a RG-213 jumper.
>



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