WRQJ277

I need some help please ! I have a comet 712efc and when I went to put the cable back into pipe something snapped. The little stubby coax caught the out side of tube and I heard a snap. Checked and didnt really see anything that came loose but when I checked swr it was 11 + ! Anyone have a diagram or some close up pictures of coax stub ? The little stub of coax is slid into brass collar but center conductor is not touching anything. The outer sheild is soldered to long coax sheild. Any help please send me some pics or a diagram to 8036298971 or email them to [email protected] Cant use this antenna until I figure the swr problem out. Thanks in advance , WRQJ277 Brian Phillips

What confuses me is you can have 50 watts out of back of radio but when u run say 500 feet of coax say (LMR400) your power would only be about 20-25 watts to antenna.so how do repeaters over come power loss in the system? I would love to know the true answer to this. Because it would be better the 50 watts is going into antenna since that is the last component of system before signal goes into air.