>
>on 3/4/00 1:06 PM, Tom Rauch at w8ji@contesting.com wrote:
>
>> You say a sharp pulse of VHF current heats the resistor from the
>> inside out, while a longer HF current heats the resistor and
>> severely damages the outside.
>>
>
>This also flies in the face of understanding how resistors work. A 2 Watt
>resistor can handle a peak power of many times that of 2 Watts. With the
>milliseconds of time that Rich is talking about, there is no way that the
>resistors could get overpowered and burn out from VHF energy.
? [chortle]
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