James M. Walker wrote:
Yep,
that is what the meters showed approximately 67% by my reckoning,
the 5KW dummy load gets warm only when you turn it up. There is
not enough drive from the DX-100 on AM to run it at the 3.5KW level
mentioned in the article. Ah, I might also mention that the article rig is
continuous tuning from 3.5 to 21 Mhz. Whereas this unit is 1.6 to 30 Mhz.
with subsequent heavier components. Or following the Harris philosophy
"Go Big, or Stay Home".
The monitor scope only required that I put a one turn loop on the end of
the 10X probe to monitor the waveform, cool!
Jim
WB2FCN
Is that like saying
"Life is too short for QRP.
If you've got it, flaunt it." ?
I had this discussion on the air this morning with some South
Texas locals.
Let me set this story up (it's a short transmission, and I'll
listen for breakers afterwards ;-))
I'm headed to K5SWK's tomorrow afternoon to help him get his 75m
antenna back in the air. There were some guys in the round table
this morning that were saying that I shouldn't worry about
getting Otis' antenna up at 60 plus feet, because their 25 and
30' tall antenns worked just fine.
I said "let me get this straight... you're running a rig that
cranks out 250+ watts and your signal is weak here, but yet you
tell me I'm head-and-shoulders above all noises and I'm running
100W and a 60'ish foot tall antenna. Yet, you only want Otis'
antenna up at 25 or 30'?
(I'm still scratching my head on that one)
73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
