A hold-over from the April issue?
Phil
Nick Kennedy wrote:
>
> 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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