1] I wonder what downloading AOL has to do with this group?
2] Another trick that you might want to try as a attenuator:
Take a SO239 "T" connector, (don't remember the real number -- its a mate to
the PL259), and remove the pin from the center and then cut a piece of either
matchbook cover or some other thin non-conducting material and insert it in
and against the insulator from where the pin was removed.
Then - using a (SO239 - bullet) and a short piece of RG-58U or so, from the
middle connector of the "T" and run that into your watt meter and I think that
you will find the attenuation that you need.
| <--- this end of the "T"-connector to your radio @ lowest
| power out.
|
|
|
|------ <--- Remove the center pin of the "T" connector at
| this location, it should just unscrew, cut a matchbook
| cover in a circle and insert it over the center
| insulator and then insert a SO239 Bullet and run
| a lead to you watt-meter then to the input of you
| xverter.
|
| <--- this end of the connector to a dummy load.
73's
Howard W3CQH
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