Hey, do ya'll remember "Dummy Load Night" dreamed up on this list some time
ago? The idea was to try to have QSO's while transmitting into a dummy
load. It eventually collapsed into sheepish laughter when everyone
realized it wasn't gonna work.
Well, in this month's QST is an article called "Everything Works" in which
the baseline bad antenna is a light bulb on a fence post. The author used
a balun to prevent feedline radiation, and had a number of QSO's using what
is essentially a dummy load. I suspect the big difference is that he was
running 150 watts out and was on ten meters. I think our effort was on the
typical 80 and 40 meter QRP frequencies.
So maybe the idea wasn't *that* laughable.
72--Nick, WA5BDU
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