I once made a dummy load with a 50W, 50-ohm wire-wound resistor. The
inductance was tuned out with a variable capacitor in series. As I
recall it worked reasonably well on 160 and 80 meters, but the bandwidth
was too narrow to be useful on the high bands.
Alan N1AL
On 12/27/2016 02:31 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
Paul,
You've got a lot of hand wringing comments about how those are probably
wire wound resistors. They probably are but in practice it might not
matter. It all depends on what exactly you are trying to accomplish.
You don't say what your usage is or how much power your TX is putting out.
Wes N7WS
On 12/27/2016 7:43 AM, Paul C wrote:
I made my own dummy load last night from two 100 ohm resistors wired
in parallel. They are rated for 10 watts each and look like little
bricks. I measured the resistance at 51 ohms. Do you think this is
close enough or should I reduce it to 50?
Paul KG5KXG
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