More fun with Radios

I tore apart the boat to cannibalize the power cable that ran from the shore power system to the staring battery. I used that as a replacement for the cable from the antenna tuner to the backstay. Got it all hooked up, turned the radio on and it tuned up. OK, so I sent and received a bunch of emails on different frequencies and it all seemed good. So next up is a call to the Maritime Mobile net on 14300 and as soon as I spoke into the mic, the radio lost its tune on the frequency. Needless to say, I'm getting more and more frustrated. I find a problem, fix it and it still doesn't work. I will run up new long wire antenna tomorrow on the of chance that the insulators on the backstay are suspect and that in conjunction with the corroded wire was causing the problem. I'm not holding my breath.

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