Second Week with the Genesis G59
Spent the last week or two working out some of the kinks on the G59. I had run PSK-31 and JF65 and I was having really great success. Made close to 100 contacts in a two week period and was getting great reports on my signal.
I had a few nagging problems the biggest being that at the start of transmission and end of transmission, I would get a HIGH SWR alert on the software. It didn’t seem to be actually be high swr on the meter or on my external meter, so after awhile I just kind of ignored it.
Then I decided it was time to move forward and try and make some SSB contacts. I ordered a Heil Proset 6 and when it came in, I thought I would be in business. No such luck.
Every time I would try to transmit, the mux indication would come on and the SWR ALERT would show up and I would have no output.
To make a long story short, I spent the next three days trying to figure out what was going on. With the help of Bruce and a couple of other people on the Yahoo Group, I finally figured out that I hadn’t completed the jumpers on the mic preamp circuit and since the Heil uses a HC-6 element which is dynamic, I needed to install a 1 uH blocking capacitor. I built a little adapter with the blocking cap in it and viola, everything works great.
I made several contacts using SSB to Oregon and Nevada. I received very good audio reports from both. Really enjoy working with the kit.