[Antennas] Power Handling of a Dubber Duckie

Sun, 22 Feb 2004 19:12:00 -0600

The rubber duck should be able to handle up to 20 watts with no 
problem...unless they use some small matching components that only can 
handle 5-10 watts....You could ask Yaesu or on the Yaesu Mail list..
but I doubt 20watts will hurt it. Besides, dropping to 10watts is only 
3db loss...with a loss of a rubber duck inside vs outside decent 
antenna, you won't notice the loss if you have to go down to 10watts.

Chris
WB5ITT

Bill Roberts wrote:

> I plan to borrow the rubber duckie antenna provided with my FT 817 with
> another rig (IC 706 MKII...  not the G) on a business trip.  The rig puts
> out up to 20 watts on 2 meters.  Does anyone have an idea as to how much
> power one of these antennas can handle?  I can reduce output, of course.
> The building I'm going to be living in is pretty RF tight so I'll need all
> the power I can get.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill / K8DXX
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