There is one additional drawback.
Last weekend, after having been off the air for just over three months, I went
to the shack to operate in the Nebraska QSO Party -- needing only NE on 10 to
finish the CW 5BWAS. Dead quiet on 10 meters. After an hour of CQ NEQP every
20 seconds, a familiar old-tyme burning smell filled the room. By sniffing
everything I found the culprit. Somehow in my absence (or in the absence of my
working memory) the KPA had been switched to ANT2, which is my dummy load.
It's rated at 1500 watts but it has a time limit. I guess I exceeded it.
But no matter. I opened a window, aired out the room, took the fried dummy
load out to the patio, switched the amp to ANT1 (a real antenna), and the sound
of the band didn't change. At all. Nada. All day. What fun.
Ted, KN1CBR
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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:14:15 -0500
From: Bob McGraw K4TAX <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Low activity
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A 50 ohm dummy load.?? There's never any noise, never any QRM, the
frequency is always clear, and always a 1:1 SWR.?? Of course getting a
DXCC is much more of a challenge.
73
Bob, K4TAX
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