I'd put an external SWR meter on it. Every station should have one, especially for situations like yours. I HIGHLY recommend one with an integrated wattmeter, and they're available used on ebay or other places. Daiwa & Diamond are good names, MFJ has several models. Or, you can borrow one.
Meanwhile, check all your connections. Gus, KG5OFB On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:21 AM Martin Blaise via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a mfj 2386 vertical at my house . It receives okay but transmit is > questionable at best. I contacted mfj and asked how to add radials and they > said that antenna is designed for without verticals and did I have the > bottom of the antenna at 37 feet up? I only have it about less than half of > that. I need a taller support. Anyway it’s broadbanded and my 450d internal > antenna tuner shows good swr match but last night on 80 meters I tuned up > and the antenna matched fine but when I transmitted on cw with flidigi it > showed swr mismatch. Rf in the shack? Trouble shooting ideas? Thanks > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org >
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