[Antennas] re: building a dummy load

Fri, 8 Aug 2003 23:44:38 -0500

There are those of us who still use hollow-state finals, either in
classic rigs (Johnson, Heath, Kenwood, Icom, Yaesu, etc) or in
amplifiers.

An Icelandic YL named Inger
Did not in this vale of tears linger
     Her final blew out;
     She started to pout
And checked the B+ with her finger

Dave          W9LYA
What wrought doG hath?

On Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:14:02 -0700 "Chris BONDE" <[email protected]> writes:
> Depending upon what power output you want to use.  There is something 
> not too 
> good about it, I believe it is that the impedance changes with the 
> temperature of the 
> filament.  However, I have used and know of other hams that have 
> used a lightbulb 
> as a load.
> 
> But, again I ask for a solidstate device, why does anyone want to 
> use a dummy 
> load?  They were used to set up the Tx, then one had to load to the 
> antennas with a 
> transmatch.
> 
> Chris opr VE7HCB
> 
> From:                   "Hart Engel" <[email protected]>
> To:                     [email protected]
> Subject:                [Antennas] re: building a dummy load
> Date sent:              Fri, 08 Aug 2003 21:03:24 -0400
> 
> > Someone has told me that I can build a dummy load using a 
> 100-300w
> > light bulb. Is this true?
> > 
> > Hart
> > 
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