[Amps] Screen current problem solved!

[Roger (K8RI)]

On 11/9/2013 8:08 PM, Carl wrote:
> Its those little things that bite you on the a**.
>
> Been there done that and is why I bought a 3000 W CCS RCA load, built by
> Bird, with a tapered snout and rated to 1000 mc at a hamfest almost 30
> years ago.
> It included a seperate 5" wattmeter in a cabinet, and a set of  250 and
> 1500W slugs for the 400-1200mc range, total of 4 elements. It works fine
> at 1296 with barely a tickle of VSWR and is still useable at 2304.
>

Out here in the heart land it's rare to see things of that quality and 
probably only those who work with them would have recognized the value.


> All for $125 since others passed on it as they werent intelligent enough
> to realize it works fine at VHF and below also (-;

That's the price for a single slug for an inline watt meter <:-))

73

Roger (K8RI)

  This was even before
> no coders and make believe Extras !!
>
> The resistor is still within 2% of 50 Ohms and based upon the mc ratings
> it has to built before the pointy heads forced that EU crap on us. I do
> turn on a pair of larger size muffin fans when pushing or exceeding the
> 3KW.
>
> Carl
> KM1H