Well, how would you suggest he troubleshoot it?

I would drop some extra C in to determine if that's what's needed. What
is it going to hurt? Otherwise all he has left, from what you have
suggested, is to complain to the manufacturer.

At the least, he should determine what, if anything, makes a difference
before complaining.

tom
K0TAR

Richard Clark wrote:

On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:00:25 -0500, Tom Ring
wrote:

Unless what he wants to do is lower the frequency.


Hi Tom,

But that is NOT what he is trying to do. He simply wants it to work
"as advertised." Everyone is re-inventing it to do what it was
already designed to do. It already resonates at these frequencies, to
add capacitance is very poor advice for any of several reasons.

What John needs is to determine if it is broke, or if it is
environment that is getting in the way. He is not asking for the
antenna to tune outside of its characteristic range.

The advice in the handbook suggests he open up the case and squash the
feed loop to compensate for nearby interfering, metallic structures.
This may solve the problem, but it is a ****-poor solution. If it
were a general, preferrable condition, they would sell them all this
way.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC