[Elecraft] Dummy Load recommendation
Jim Ragsdale
jim at w5la.net
Tue Jul 23 16:42:12 EDT 2019
I quit using 60 W light bulbs when I worked a station in New Jersey from
Memphis, Tennessee!
Jim W5LA ex K4QG ex WA4BAC ex WN4BAC
On 07/23/19 3:03 PM, Grant Youngman wrote:
> 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
>
>> 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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