On Sun, 28 May 2006 13:47:35 GMT, "JC" wrote:



Update,

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3.) The Alpha folks are trying to build a chimney for me with their Silastic
RTV material. I think they are either going to charge me an arm and a leg,
or kick the order back. This will be a custom design, and not an off the


Ahhhh... That is just a pice of Silastic (TM) sheet wide enough and
long enough to form a chimney when wrapped around the tube. I can't
imagine it'd take much engineering. It's a very crude, but effective
design and easy to make if you have the material.

shelf part. I may go back to the solid Teflon block idea, and try to find a
place that will machine it.


With SSB, or AM, doesn't a wattmeter show the average (over several
sylables) reading of the RMS power? :-)

Some do and some don't. There are a number of watt meters including
at least one Bird model that are capable of measuring PEP. Even the
MFJ tuners have that capabililty but I don't know how accurage they'd
be.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com


Jim
WD5JKO