Quite so.
Forty years ago the FT101 had a front end protection circuit that
included a light bulb. When I was in the Antarctic, location doesn't
really matter, my antennas were reasonably close and when I keyed the
main TX at 1500W the rear of the '101 would flash with the keying.
Never suffered a front end failure.
I have a circuit diagram dated 2010 for an "RX Protector", which
unfortunately doesn't offer any authorship detail, it looks similar to
the '101 circuit. If anyone wants a copy let me know.
If the idea of a bulb and a couple of back to back diodes and big
signals worries you then perhaps making this as a piece of test
equipment to be used as a level reality check and then taken out of the
signal path is possibly the answer.
Regards,
Mike VP8NO
On 16/04/2014 12:40, Charlie T, K3ICH wrote:
Connect a "grain-of-wheat" light bulb across the unused coax and
gradually increase transmit power.
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