[AMRadio] Sorta OT but just wondering about RF termination resistors.

[Rob Atkinson]

hey don,
if it's the one I saw it's a few dozen teeny SMT resistors on a pc
card to get a DL that can handle around 5 watts.  First thing in my
mind was shoot, I'd go downstairs to a bag of 2 W 200 ohm carbons, and
fish out four, drill holes in that kit pc card, solder 'em up  and
call it good and done.  screw that SMT %^&*.

rob
k5uj

On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 7:01 PM <donroden at hiwaay.net> wrote:
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> QST has a building a dummy load article in the last couple of months.
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> something like 12 600 ohm thin-film resistors @ 50 cents each
>
> and two 50 ohm resistors in parallel = 25 ohms
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> two 25 ohm pairs is series gets you back to 25+25=50 ohms
>
> Don W4DNR
>