"Richard Clark" wrote in message
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On 27 Mar 2004 14:23:33 -0800, (Patrick Gardella)
wrote:

Now does anyone know how to take a UHV-4 apart?

Hi Patrick,

Before you do that (what would you fix?); confirm your reading with a
load in its place (terminate the connection).

Glad to hear my psychic powers are still up to snuff...

But make sure that the connection is working before
you take the antenna apart... you may be able to bend
a spring (NMO) or tweak some contact leaves (259)
and get the thing working right! Sometimes connectors
have thread problems that prevent them from bottoming
properly when screwed on.... check all these things.
Make sure there's no little piece of plastic over the
important bits, stuff like that. Check for a broken center
conductor... trunk lip mounts have been known to
do this to coax, and the bigger antenna may be pulling
the connection apart.
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Steve
KI5YG
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