Been using one since my Novice days.
1975.
Was created not knowing any better because the vaporizer, ya know
the old like hankscraft
vaporizer for when you are sick? And if your water was too "Soft"
no minerals,
and it wouldn't boil in tme manual it told ya to add saly or soda
till it would start to boil.
Think about it, many super high voltage high power tubes use
distilled water as the cooling medium. and were like talking 10
thousand volts in contact with the water.
But pure water just H2O is an incredible insulator.
The Mayo jar if it had pure H2o in it would give over 40 meg ohms
resistance!
Being a stupid teenager ham, I thought what's happening and
figured when addind the soda to the water it is lowering the
resistance and ya know for makong power and all that current draws
etc. bla bla bla. so thats how I made my first one in 1975.
Joe WB9SBD
On 2/27/2025 10:54 AM, Todd W2TEF via
groups.io wrote:
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Soda/salt water dummy load?!? Why didn't anyone tell me it could be this easy and cheap?
A web-page about the idea:
Thanks for the tip, Joe!
72 de Todd W2TEF
