[Elecraft] Dummy loads for dummies

[Alan Bloom]

I once made a dummy load with a 50W, 50-ohm wire-wound resistor.  The 
inductance was tuned out with a variable capacitor in series.  As I 
recall it worked reasonably well on 160 and 80 meters, but the bandwidth 
was too narrow to be useful on the high bands.

Alan N1AL


On 12/27/2016 02:31 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> Paul,
>
> You've got a lot of hand wringing comments about how those are probably
> wire wound resistors.  They probably are but in practice it might not
> matter.  It all depends on what exactly you are trying to accomplish.
> You don't say what your usage is or how much power your TX is putting out.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
>  On 12/27/2016 7:43 AM, Paul C wrote:
>> I made my own dummy load last night from two 100 ohm resistors wired
>> in parallel.  They are rated for 10 watts each and look like little
>> bricks.  I measured the resistance at 51 ohms.  Do you think this is
>> close enough or should I reduce it to 50?
>>
>> Paul KG5KXG
>
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