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

[donroden at hiwaay.net]

Look a month or so back.... a 100 watt mineral-oil dummy load … the  
one with the digital wattmeter.

don W4DNR

Quoting Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com>:

> 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:
>>
>> QST has a building a dummy load article in the last couple of months.
>>
>> something like 12 600 ohm thin-film resistors @ 50 cents each
>>
>> and two 50 ohm resistors in parallel = 25 ohms
>>
>> two 25 ohm pairs is series gets you back to 25+25=50 ohms
>>
>> Don W4DNR
>>