Oh Shucks at some point elmers all used a lamp for a dummy load back in the day with Pi tuning you could transfer a lot of your output to a lamp,,, on 6 meters , as I recall ,, parts of the filament would be brighter than other parts we could talk about RF burns
HAR Bob K3DJC On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 00:51:58 +0000 (UTC) Bob Gibson via Elecraft <[email protected]> writes: > You guys are right!! SORRY FOR MY STUPID POST!! Sixty years ago I > did not have money for a dummy load..ENJOY 73s Bob W5RG > > > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: Don't have a 50W dummy load > > Ummm ... several reasons. Resistance component of an incandescent > bulb > impedance varies with the temperature [brightness] of the filament. > They are also somewhat reactive. ______________________________________________________________ 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]
