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At 04:44 PM 2/27/2006, Larry Carman wrote:
>With 3900 watts you can fry tasty chicken in the dummy load if you use
>vegetable oil. Think the FCC would fall for that one???
>... I actually had a dummy load filled with vegetable oil. Worked ok but oil
>gummed up around the heated metal contact points after a while.
>Regards,
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I've always felt the best dummy load was an antenna, used judiciously
of course.
Ten meters at midnight works, or 160 meters at noon. Just get on RTTY
and do lots of testing or calling long CQs. The ether never gets hot
or needs repair. :-)
73, Bill W6WRT
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