On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:11 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > ...at some point elmers all used a lamp for a dummy load > back in the day with Pi tuning...
------------- Yep, back in 1958 I loaded up my first home-brew transmitter (6146, of course) with a 100W bulb and I am one of the many hams who can claim to have made a qso using the bulb for an antenna, on 40M cw. The output capacitor of my pi-net was one of those double-gang 365 uuf per gang broadcast receiver jobbies. Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ 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]

