[Elecraft] Fw: Fw: Don't have a 50W dummy load

[Bob Gibson via Elecraft]

 You guys are right!! SORRY FOR MY STUPID POST!! Sixty years ago I did not have money for a dummy load..ENJOY   73s Bob W5RG

    ----- Forwarded Message -----
  From: Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net>
 To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 6:41 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Fw: Don't have a 50W dummy load
   
Ummm ... several reasons.  Resistance component of an incandescent bulb 
impedance varies with the temperature [brightness] of the filament. 
They are also somewhat reactive.  Push-pull vacuum tubes and link 
coupling didn't care about SWR, I don't even remember the term in the 
ham lexicon until the Pi-network and 50 ohm output was invented.

They're also not very good at the "dummy" part.  N6BT, of Force 12 fame, 
is fairly famous for his "phased illuminator," 3 300 watt bulbs mounted 
on his deck railing in a V arrangement on which he worked all 
continents.  More than once I made contacts while using a 100 watt bulb 
as my dummy load.

If you're going to use the paralleled metal film resistor construction 
method, be sure to keep the resistor leads short and spaced them from 
each other.  Lead inductance will start to become a factor on 6 m and 
up.  I built mine with 40 2K 2W resistors and it works find at 100W if 
used intermittently.  It's air cooled.  Don't know how much putting it 
in oil would improve the dissipation.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org



>> On Mar 25, 2015, at 14:25, Bob Gibson via Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>
>> HOW ABOUT A LAMP WITH 100 WATT BLUB, THATS ALL US OLD GUYS HAD!  73s Bob W5RG

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