------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE ------------(may be snipped) On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:05:18 -0700, you wrote:
>The key word is Resistive. REPLY: I have used light bulbs in the olden days, although not for the K3 cal procedure. The trick is to insert a variable cap in series to tune out the reactance. Works well, but has to be retuned for each band of course, and the resistance varies with brightness. Because of the variation, do not use with an automatic antenna tuner or the tuner will constantly seek a correct tune. A real dummy load is better. 73, Bill W6WRT ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
