>>More fundamental current goes through the resistors as the frequency goes
>>up, because of the increasing reactance of the shunt inductor. I suspect
>>that because most parasitic suppressors are 'designed' on an empirical
>>basis, very little (if any) thought is geiven to the actual dissipation in
>>the suppressor resistors.
>
>? Indeed, which is why I wrote "Calculating Suppressor Resistor
>Dissipation ..." (March, 1989, *QST*).
Did you take into account the fact that resistor dissipation goes down with
increasing temperature?
73,
Jon
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