Just a thought on dummy loads, a number of years ago I noticed my Heath Cantenna was giving me a slightly higher SWR reading instead of 1 to 1. When I measured it with a VTVM I found it was 40 ohms, not the original 50 ohms when I built it 25 or so years ago. I posted this on the Heath users Email list and received around 5 or 6 replies all with the same condition of 40 ohms. The interesting point is that my dummy load has never seen more then 100 W; as I have never have and probably never will own a KW. Several of the replies I received from the Heath users group also had never run a KW into their Heath cantenna's.
Last year a Dayton I picked up a dummy load, which is a 50 ohm it is 10 or 20 W resistor on a massive heat sink, and easily handles 100 W, designed for use on VHF, it is flat across the bands, at least from 1.8 to 30 MHz. By the way I also have several hb dummy loads for QRP which I know are also 50 ohms. Steve Ray K4JPN ex K1VKW EM82ep Warner Robins GA Elecraft K2 1422 & KPA-100 Heath Fan HW-101, HW-8 http://www.thewinstonator.com/k4jpn.htm _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
