Robin If your Tarheal is flooded, Tarheal should have instructions to disassemble so you can thoroughly dry it. As per Paul, fresh water shouldn't harm it. I remember reading that they suggested

Rain water.

Salt water or fresh water? If it’s fresh water I suspect when it dries out you’ll be fine. -p W7PFB 73, Don’t forget to smile and have fun!

The reason that 2 different coax cables did not cure the problem, replacing connectors did not cure the problem, is that there was a LOT of water in the coil housing. When I took it off the car and

Here is the YouTube Promo video for the QSO Today Virtual Expo 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7vXslIMFj0&feature=youtu.be Thanks, Rowland

Ran down my car battery so now my focus is AAA to jump it so I can go home. There is moisture in the coil housing. Maybe that explains the whole weird thing. I wouldn't exactly call it a common mode

Shawn, There is one weathered bnc coming from the shorter coax off the mag mount. This is because I am a bad ham, unlike Paul, and never wrapped it with weather tape. But the problem seems to be from

Paul, Was looking for a big ferrite ring when I stopped to read here. Was thinking long coax acting like part of antenna. I will first put the loops in the long coax and see what effect that has, then

Also check for contaminated connectors. --Shawn --K7ATA

I think you might have some common mode current problem. If you have enough coax length, make the coax connected to the mag mount into an ugly balun by putting a bunch of 6” diameter loops in it,

Hi Ralph, No dummy load with me but when I get home I can test cable. So, I've put 2 cable on and both had same SWR results at both ends. Robin

Robin What coax extension cable are you using? Can you put a 50 ohm dummy load and check it? Or do you have a different cable to use? Maybe a bad cable? I know, I'm not much help just asking

I recruited a pair of man hands who found that both the quick release to the mag mount and to the antenna were not as tight as they should be. Optimistically I remeasured at the antenna, still 1.0. It

Paul, thank you for responding. I am in very cold and windy Port Townsend. Yes a long run of coax between PA and the shorter coax from the magmount. SWR at mag mount measures 1.0 on 20 meters. SWR at

This is a far less embarrassing blooper than my current best-in-class blooper when my IC-9700 arrived and I couldn’t figure out why I got audio from the secondary VFO and the S meter for the primary

So you have your Tarheel outside on the mag mount and more coax between the KPA and the coax attached to the mag mount? What is the SWR at the coax coming from the mag mount? I’m assuming you’re

The cause of the noise across all digital FT8 band segments was quite simply from my new Sabrent USB sound card plugged into my laptop with the mic and speaker cables swapped. I am 99% sure no one

Hi Tarheel owner friends. Car roof mounted Tarheel is tuned 1.0 on 20 meters connected at other end to KPA100 PA fully integrated with my KX3 tranceiver. At PA end of coax SWR is over 6.0. I swapped

I’m looking to buy a small 12vdc to 120VAC inverter to power a small rolling cart (on which I might put a laptop, say, or instruments like an oscilloscope. The laptop/o’scope/whatever would then

Thanks for the heads-up. Just so happens I can make that. Take care, Bryce