As a new ham (1958-9) my "dummy load" was a 60 watt light bulb. Even made a few local contacts with it. Couldn’t afford anything else. A good pi-network could load most anything, anyway .. :-)
Grant NQ5T K3 #2091 KX3 #8342 > > But as a new young ham (1960's) I bought a cantenna (paint can filled with > mineral oil and resistor load immersed) for HF stuff and a Knight-Kit SWR > meter. But as I got older and had more cash I got better stuff. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com