[Boatanchors] Ranger Power

[Vic Rosenthal]

Steve W0OOW wrote:

> Does anyone know the output power of a Johnson Ranger (on 40M) at 75 watts
> input keydown?

The 6146 is class C and my experience has been that efficiency is around 
70%, so that would be 52.5 watts.  Even a new Bird wattmeter is rated at 
5% of full scale accuracy, so unless you have some very high class 
laboratory test equipment around, the best answer is "around 50 watts".

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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