I've heard of this happening to others, but never inquired to why..
I'm trying to get my station setup working as good as it could with my unfortunate antenna situation.
My IMAX 2000 is about 10 feet from ground to feed point.
If the antennas gonna go higher it won't be by much. About another 5 feet, and that's it.
Back to the issue at hand. As I change my channel from 1 to 40 my receive increases. Then drops down once I reach channel 1. It begins to rise as I go higher in frequency.
Switching from channel 40 to 1 will cause the receive to drop by at least one s unit.
I had a local give me a five count on channel 40.
His signal was an S9.
One click puts my Sonar on channel 1 where his signal is now an S8 (slightly less.)
As I change the channels one by one higher I can actually hear the normal everyday static getting louder as the noise level visual gets higher on the S unit meter.
This also happens with my Uniden Madison. Telling me it's most likely not the rigs.
Is there a simple fix for this issue? And how common is it?
It would be nice to have both transceivers receive on all channels as they do on channel 40.
This happens weather on SSB or AM.
I want to add that I do have a Dawia 2 position antenna switch, an amp (one for the Sonar, one for the Madison) and an swr/power meter in line.
Why does this happen?
And how can it be rectified?
I'm trying to get my station setup working as good as it could with my unfortunate antenna situation.
My IMAX 2000 is about 10 feet from ground to feed point.
If the antennas gonna go higher it won't be by much. About another 5 feet, and that's it.
Back to the issue at hand. As I change my channel from 1 to 40 my receive increases. Then drops down once I reach channel 1. It begins to rise as I go higher in frequency.
Switching from channel 40 to 1 will cause the receive to drop by at least one s unit.
I had a local give me a five count on channel 40.
His signal was an S9.
One click puts my Sonar on channel 1 where his signal is now an S8 (slightly less.)
As I change the channels one by one higher I can actually hear the normal everyday static getting louder as the noise level visual gets higher on the S unit meter.
This also happens with my Uniden Madison. Telling me it's most likely not the rigs.
Is there a simple fix for this issue? And how common is it?
It would be nice to have both transceivers receive on all channels as they do on channel 40.
This happens weather on SSB or AM.
I want to add that I do have a Dawia 2 position antenna switch, an amp (one for the Sonar, one for the Madison) and an swr/power meter in line.
Why does this happen?
And how can it be rectified?
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