This is Mike, KD2CDU,I had RF problems for almost a year off and
on. and I tryed jumpers, changed to thicker coax, and lots, it would
cut it down, but it was there. When I got the ts590, it went
away. But to be fair about it, the antenna didn't have a real good
swr, about 3 to 1. But the TS480 has a cable to the control head and
that picked some RF up.
It is frustrating, but as with me, everyone was eager to help. That
is why it is quite gratifying to talk and be part of this group.
Now for something I thought was neat. I talked to people on 10
meters (FM), both simplex and through a repeater. The repeater was
in Dalas, and the person also was in texas. My first (FM)
contacts. I was quite happy. At 07:03 PM 12/14/2013, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I knew I was having this problem, sometimes and sometimes not, with RF =
>getting into my audio, and I wasn=92t sure where, exactly. Someone =
>suggested perhaps a bad coax shield. Remembering that some of my coax =
>jumpers are likely as old as my ham career, I tried bypassing the tuner, =
>which meant straight to the antenna, and the RF was much less or perhaps =
>gone as Steve affirmed. So I pulled what I suspected might be the most =
>likely culprit and put in a different jumper, specifically between the =
>radio and the wattmeter. And then I listened on a receiver with the RF =
>gain turned all the way down to pretty much nothing. And heard no icky =
>RF noises. And also no RF noises getting into perhaps other than the =
>computer speakers sitting right near the radio, which, well, they=92re =
>crappy Logitech speakers, so can=92t expect great shielding anyway. So I =
>think, fingers crossed, it=92s solved. Don=92t know why I didn=92t think =
>of bad coax, but of course it makes sense.
>
>Vy 73, de KB5ELV=
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