you need to adjust the antenna  before trying to make any more contacts.  If 
you are trying to dump 100 watts into  a 12: 1  load, you risk  destroying 
the  final  output transistors in your rig.   Your radio's protection 
circuits are seeing the high swr and  reducing output power to prevent 
damage, but you are playing with fire doing this.

What band were you on?  You should check your antenna to see if it is set to 
factory specs.   The  Butternut has a ton of adjustments.   There is only  1 
adjustment for 10 meters, if that is where you were.  It's the length of the 
top most  tube on the antenna. Just because  it worked at  the previous 
owner's QTH  doesn't mean it is set up right  for your location.


Steve KW3A

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gery Gaubert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 9:31 AM
Subject: ic751a


> Steve and everyone who helped.  I did make a partial contact last nght.
> The band conditions were going from bad to worse last night.  The
> partial contact repeated my call but after that I couldn't pick him out
> of all of the noise  There was also a guy in Rhode Island that I wanter
> to reach but every time he completed a contact there was a pile up.  Any
> way, I'll try again tonight.  I did get the watt meter to work sort of.
> I put theradio in rtty and flipped the transmit switch and got swr that
> varied from 12:1 to 15:1.  Forward and reflected power would get no
> higher than about 23 watts.  I wonder if an antena tuner would help
> this? =20
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