On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 22:54:07 -0400, "Murray Green, K3BEQ"
wrote:


Another ham friend and me both have 100 w slugs for 100-250 Mhz. (100c).
Both are bad. Tests were made on three different Bird meters and a 3rd
slug known to be good.

On all 3 meters inputting 100 w, the good slug showed 100 watts while
the two bad ones showed 70 w and 60 w respectively. Pretty high odds
that we both would have faulty slugs eh?

So the questions a what happened to make them go bad, and can they
be reasonably repaired by the Bird Corporation? Although we will
be calling Bird personnel next week I thought I would throw out the
question here.

Last but not least, any good 100w 100-250 Mhz slugs out there for sale?

73 K3BEQ

I had a 250 watt HF slug that went bad for no good reason. It was
about 20 years old, but hadn't been dropped or anything. Just started
registering 160 watts on a 100 watt rig. Figured getting it
recalibrated would cost more than a new slug, so simply bought a new
slug.

bob
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