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[Amps] TenTec+Nichrome

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Subject: [Amps] TenTec+Nichrome
From: 2 at vc.net (2)
Date: Thu Mar 27 14:06:48 2003

>It only means that 29MHz was heating up the resistors and no more.
>Most likely because circulating current was not only flowing thru the
>Plate tuning capacitor but also thru the plate to ground capacitance
>(plate to grid and plate to chassis and case).

**  agreed, however, Ten-Tec initially did not figure that out.
>
>73
>Bill wa4lav
>
>
>At 08:51 AM 3/27/2003 -0800, 2 wrote:
>>**  After the October 1988 article on improved parasitic-suppression
>>appeared in *QST*, Ten-Tec tried low VHF-Q suppressors but they abandoned
>>the idea after they found such suppressors get quite hot at 29MHz on RTTY
>>mode.  Nacherally, this meant the suppressors were doing their job.
>> >
>
>


-  R. L. Measures, a.k.a. Rich..., 805.386.3734, AG6K, 
www.vcnet.com/measures.  
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