[Boatanchors] WANTED: 274 Ohm Resistor

[Randall Berry]

  Hi Brian,

I bought a Sark100 antenna analyzer, It uses a 50, a 150, and a 274 ohm 
resistors to calibrate it in 3 stages. I've got the 50 (48.9), (2 100's 
parallel) and the 150 (148.7), both at 5%, (Plus my meters margin of 
error, at .1 ohm shorted) I just need the 274. Not sure how close 
tolerance it's looking for. I guess I could try a 270 5% it can't hurt. 
Rat Shack has a card of 5 at 5% for a buck fitty. A bit more than forty 
cents but Rat Shack is all I've got for local parts. I guess there's 
nothing stopping me from bringing in my VOMit and testing in the store 
for the closest.

Thanks,
Randy, N3LRX

On 08/30/2014 04:43 AM, Brian Clarke wrote:
> Hello Randy,
>
> Buy a strip of 10off 270 Ohm, 0.25 W resistors, 10% tolerance. Should
> cost all of 40c total. Measure them all on a good Ohmmeter - you should
> find at least one that is close to 274 Ohm. After all, 274 is only 1.5%
> away from 270. (Statistically, you have better than 30% likelihood of
> finding at least one that is close to 274 Ohm)
>
> More seriously, I would question why you can't just use a 270 Ohm
> resistor anyway.
>
> 73 de Brian, VK2GCE.
>
> On : [Boatanchors] WANTED: 274 Ohm Resistor, you said:
>
>
>> This may be slightly off topic I guess, but does anyone have a 274 ohm
>> resistor or in their stash willing to drop one in an envelope? I see
>> some on ebay but I don't need 100 of them and don't really need 2 or 3
>> watts, but I'll take it if that's all you have. Ideally 1/4-1/2 will
>> suit fine. I'll gladly pay a few bucks for your troubles.
>>
>> Address is good on qrz. Please contact me first and let me know so I can
>> update this thread. I'd hate to have a dozen people blindly sending me
>> resistors.
>>
>> tnx es 73 de Randy, N3LRX
>