[Elecraft] Dummy Load recommendation

Grant Youngman ghyoungman at gmail.com
Tue Jul 23 16:03:46 EDT 2019


As a new ham (1958-9) my "dummy load" was a 60 watt light bulb.  Even made a few local contacts with it.  Couldn’t afford anything else.  A good pi-network could load most anything, anyway .. :-)

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091 KX3 #8342

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> But as a new young ham (1960's) I bought a cantenna (paint can filled with mineral oil and resistor load immersed) for HF stuff and a Knight-Kit SWR meter.  But as I got older and had more cash I got better stuff.
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