Charles French,
One way to find out... try it.? However use a good pot.? The shields go to one end of
the resistor and not to any ground near the pot and both shields are used at ground
where the pot was on the board.? Short leads and good lead dress keeping the two
shielded wires away from the board. The likely problem is RF feedback and oscillation
Me I'd dial it down as the sweet spot for passably decent IMD was found to be
around 2W anyway (for 80/40/20).
The current home brew radio I use with the 1208 is designed for it and the internal attenuator
was dialed down to 3db so all I needed the radio to deliver was about 3mW! Its dedicated to
the 1208.? Why?? Running the transverter and developing power to dump in resistors?resulted
in a power hungry system (nearly 40W in for about 10 out).? Doing a TRX specifically
for that lowered that to less than 26W (at 11W out) making it far more battery friendly.
Over the years I had my first Hb 20mSSB (3.5-4W),? WM20 (about 3w), and a TT505 Argonaut
(about 5W)? and all of them at one point or another drove the 1208 until I built a low low power
radio as a driver.? ?It iss a fun backup to my HF-6M (Eagle) and TT526 6n2 and five HB 6M
monoband radios.
Allison
