{"id":1375,"date":"2019-05-26T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T22:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.pratt.edu\/open-source\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2019-05-26T12:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T22:23:26","slug":"upgrade-to-an-old-cantenna-dummy-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/?p=1375","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to an old Cantenna Dummy Load"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few years go I made a Cantenna Dummy load. I filled it with mineral oil left over from some woodworking projects and it;s worked great for a long time. Takes a 200W or more just to get it warm&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I decided to 3D print a mount for a wattmeter on top&#8230; Had to make a base while I was at it&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/amateur_radio\/IMG_3209.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/amateur_radio\/IMG_3208.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And I made an RF power meter tap too&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/amateur_radio\/IMG_3207.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Now to decide if I go Analog or TFT Display digital&#8230;. Or maybe a combo&#8230;. I do have some nice meters I got recently at a surplus store&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/amateur_radio\/IMG_3192.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/es.pratt.edu\/Commons\/Images\/amateur_radio\/IMG_3193.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years go I made a Cantenna Dummy load. I filled it with mineral oil left over from some woodworking projects and it;s worked great for a long time. Takes a 200W or more just to get it warm&#8230; I decided to 3D print a mount for a wattmeter on top&#8230; Had to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-amateur-radio","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kornequipped.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}