Radio Shack BNC 50 ohm terminator as Dummy Load
 

MGFoster wrote:
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I saw this 50 ohm "terminator" BNC connector at Radio Shack today and
was wondering if it could be used as an antenna dummy load? It is
designed as a computer network terminator - just a female jack without
any output connector. I believe the only question would be "Could it
stand the power output?" What if the output was just 5W? Anybody know
about this product or have used it as a dummy load?

It'd sure save the price of a "real" dummy antenna (it was priced about
$4.00 USD).

Thanks

There is surplus store in Sacramento, Ca. The name of the store is,
"Computer Surplus", he had bins of those resistors. You could
series/parallel those until the "cows came home", I could easily imagine
a matrix capable of handling 1KW or more, at least for a minute or two ...

Look around ...

Regards,
JS

Radio Shack BNC 50 ohm terminator as Dummy Load
 

John Smith wrote:

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There is surplus store in Sacramento, Ca. The name of the store is,
"Computer Surplus", he had bins of those resistors. You could
series/parallel those until the "cows came home", I could easily imagine
a matrix capable of handling 1KW or more, at least for a minute or two ...

Look around ...

Regards,
JS

I forgot to mention the price, they were .10 cents a piece. If you took
a bucket full off his hands, I'd imagine you'd get a MUCH better price.
LOL

I am sure you can find it in the phone-book ...

Regards,
JS