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Subject: [AMPS] Bleeders
From: jimheath@foothill.net (Jim Heath)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:23:04 -0700
I need some bleeders.  I am looking for 200K to 300K at 200 watts or more.
I have plenty of room.  Got anything in your junk box?

73, Jim KB6SX

-----Original Message-----
From: Vic Rosenthal <rakefet@rakefet.com>
To: Jonathan Kaplan <jonk@jskent.com>
Cc: Amps@contesting.com <Amps@contesting.com>
To: <amps@contesting.com>
Date: Thursday, September 09, 1999 6:56 AM
Subject: Re: [AMPS] Have Cake & Eat it too


>
>Jonathan Kaplan wrote:
>>
>> In other words, when I tune the AMP
>> the power meter (a RS model) will either show greater power at
>> a high SWR or low power at low SWR. But not high power at low
>> SWR!  What does this mean is wrong? Does it neccessarily
>> mean the final output into the air is limited, and that the antenna
>> system is out of tune?
>
>If you mean that the meter shows extra high power on frequencies for which
the
>SWR is high, this is an inaccurate power reading caused by the meter's
being
>designed to work properly only on a relatively flat (low-swr) line.
>
>If you mean that the swr reading goes way up as the power output of the amp
is
>increased, then this might be an indication that the harmonic output of the
amp
>is very high when the amp is tuned for high power; the swr of the antenna
system
>at harmonic frequencies is probably very high.
>
>73,
>Vic, K2VCO
>Fresno CA
>
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