KF4EIB wrote:
>
> Greetings to the Gang,
>
> I am in the middle of a grand and glorious building project, my very
> first QRP
> kit (40 meters). It has dawned on me (or was a that a flash from a
> short) that
> I will need a dummy load
The simplest QRP dummy load that I ever built is a 51 ohm 2-watt carbon
resistor (if you can get these any more!) just stuck inside a pl-259
with one lead soldered into the tip and the other to the shell. It works
quite well even with a full 5 watts, as long as you don't put a brick on
the key.
Vic K2VCO
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