[Boatanchors] Decision made: Reducing Ranger output

[manualman at juno.com]

If you can, try to use noninductive resistors. When I did a sweep of my
homebrew 6 db resistive pad (used a bunch of carbon resistors I had on
hand) years ago, I had several major SWR bumps between 1.8 and 30 MHz.

Pete, wa2cwa
http://www.manualman.com

On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:00:08 -0500 "Joe Roth" <wc4r at usa.com> writes:
> Simple question yielded lots of conversation! Thanks.
> I decided to try the outboard attenuation route. I need to drop it 
> down 9dB. That will give me about 5-6 watts driving the amp which 
> gives me 340-360 watts carrier and LOTS of headroom too.
> 73 & Merry Christmas!
> Joe