You can strip the shield back on coax like suggested, but you stand
the chance of having too high of a standing wave ratio and harming the RF amp.
You can just keep a couple rubber duckies with the right gender
changer on the bench, or terminate to a proper dummy load like these:
http://www.rfparts.com/dummy.html
Mike
At 04:10 PM 8/24/2009, you wrote:
>For bench purposes, how hard is it to build antenna loads for the
>bench. I hate having to hook up a antenna, LMR and Pigtail every
>time I test a radio. I am pretty new to this Building my own stuff
>and not buying preconfigured. Can you just solder a 50 Ohm resister
>to some pig tails? Or is there a better answer?
>
>Steve Barnes
>Manager
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>RC-WiFi Wireless Internet Service
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