With a EWE antenna or any other small-area antenna of that family
like Flags, Pennants, or small verticals almost any style resistor
except wire-wound will work. If it is near a transmitting antenna,
then the resistor's power rating must be increased...but even a metal
film would be fine and actually more desirable than carbon types.
Composition or high surge-energy rated resistors are advisable in
Beverages and other large area antennas, because even lightning
strikes a few miles away can open metal film or carbon film or change
the value of film-type carbon resistors. They won't always show
external damage when ruined by lightning.
At 30MHz and lower, almost any resistor except wire wound is fine
impedance-wise.
> Most of these I have found at hamfests, others at Meshna last year in
> Dayton. Check also other surplus houses like Hosfelt Electronics or
> All-Electronics.
Most carbon resistors manufactured since the 70's are carbon film,
and that includes large brown cased resistors commonly mistaken for
compositions. This is especially problematic with resistors used in
parasitic suppressors, surge suppression, and long wire antenna
terminations.
There isn't any identifying mark or style that allows us to just look
at the outside of most carbon resistors and tell what type they are.
Always be sure to break a resistor open, and look at the core. If it
has a light-colored core or if it is not a solid core of carbon (you
can scrape carbon with a knife and watch it crumble or flake off into
grains) it is a carbon film.
Most of the resistors I find surplus are carbon film, and are
physically identical to the much less common carbon comps. The only
harm from using the wrong type is in life in surge applications, or
in use at 30MHz and higher (like in VHF and higher combiners,
amplifier parasitic suppressors, and dummy loads).73, Tom W8JI
W8JI@contesting.com
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