Common fail...(!)

My Holidays are extented untill 15-1-2012 at my 2nd QTH.

Unfortunatelly at 4th of January my TS-2000 was fail on TX. No power on HF-VHF and OK at 6m and UHF. Searching on groups that's  related to my radio on Internet I find many info about it.  (Blown a pair of 2SC1972 drivers and a board fuse)

Finally as people says is a common failure for many of TS-2000 owners....(!)

Thanks to my good friend SV5KJR I replace my radio with another Kenwood the TS-480SAT.

This week I'll be active on CW and SSB but NO RTTY mostly on WARC bands. 

See you all and sorry for the 2 days break...hi hi

Total Antenna test...

Spending my last 5 days at my alternative QTH with very bad weather I have the chance to make an big continue antenna test for my 9 Band Windom that I modify for 160-10m operation around April this year. With lot of time for operation (due to rain and strong winds) I decide to make a detailed long test to antenna to check for efficiency at all bands. I have to say that the antenna is free of RFI because Im use 10 toroidal rings near feed point.  I make 1.476 QSOs from 160 to 10m bands mostly on CW and RTTY. Few QSOs are made at SSB on 12m band. The power was 100w on CW, SSB and 50w on RTTY. Radio used TS-2000.

The antenna efficiency behavior is the follow:

160m: Poor

  80m: Good

  40m: Very Good

  30m: Poor (QRM on Wi-FI !!!)

  20m: Very Good

  17m: Very Good

  15m: Good

  12m: Very good

  10m: Very good

Unfortunately I'm about to build a new antenna for 160m because the poor results of the modified windom. Of course the antenna height is not the optimal this time (8m AGL), but I was expecting more than 22 QSOs in 2 hours of trying...!!!