[Elecraft] Dummy load for Part III

Fri Nov 8 21:00:39 2002

Two years ago at the Milton (VT) Hamfest when we did the QRP Forum one thing
we did was demo the PSK-80 Warbler ... I put my nice below described Rat
Shack dummy load on it. To make the long story short we could get anything
to work right. It seems that between the nice metal case I had the Warbler
in and the rat Shack Dummy load ... NOTHING got into or out of the Warbler
!!! Soon as we put a short RG-58 'jumper' between the dummy load and the
Warbler case it all started working. The other guy was using an open
homebrew dummy load

 cheers ... Bbr. n1bq

On 11/7/02 13:59, "Ron D'Eau Claire" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For ops looking for a pre-built dummy load, Radio Shack does make a
> nifty little factory-built dummy load. I bought one 15 years ago to use
> checking VHF radios on ships. It's round, about 1.5 inch in diameter
> (mostly black cooling fins) and about 2.5 inches long with a male SO-239
> coax connector built in one end. It's rated for 15 watts and will handle
> that easily for longer than one should hold the key down on the K2 at
> that power level. The stores don't carry them any longer, but I know a
> fellow who bought one on-line from Radio Shack not too long ago. They're
> about US $20. 