Ron Hardin wrote in message ...
Maybe the case top isn't making a good ground, or a ground connection
is lost elsewhere.

The thing can feed back into itself, which will overload things in
general and any frequency can pop up anywhere.

Thanks, Ron - Could be - but I am not the person to try to figure this out!

As I mentioned, the effect seems to be there whether the MFJ-1026 is inline or not.

Bruce Jensen