Suzy wrote:
"Owen Duffy" wrote in message
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Jim Lux wrote in news:fntlce$h96$1
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http://www.caddock.com/ has a link to their Australian distributor
(granted, they may have some punitive minimum order).

A begging letter to Caddock for a sample might work?

Or, do the big mailorder companies ship to Australia (the parts are in
the few bucks range.. postage and shipping could be more)


Suzy,

I had a look at Farnell (au) for these type of resistors recently
(Caddock are not the only maker).

My recollection is that a 100W resistor is likely to be good for 50W -
60W in a practical application, and they were about $28 ea + $12
shipping, and IIRC minimum order quantity was one.

That is not to recommend them for a simple accurate load for 70cm.

Owen


But hopefully the Bird Termaline 50W model 8085 will do the job?




in AU, have you checked surplus places like
http://www.users.bigpond.com/alandevlin/forsale.html

Indeed, it shows a HP 774D as being sold, but perhaps he'd have other stuff.