Yeah, back in the day, I almost blew up one of those old Conway tuning 
aids that way.

Forgot to reduce the power to 5 watts when tuning, but caught the problem 
just in time before too much smoke got out.  (grin)

Was sure an early lesson to me that I'll never forget, even though nothing 
was lost in the process.

73 from Tom Behler: KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Butch Bussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning aids, noise bridges, etc.


> Yes, of course.  Then your rig is looking at just the antenna.  Only
> thing that might happen is rig might cut back power.  One thing to keep
> in mind as far as noise bridges.  The vectronics has a rf senser to
> bypass it if you accidentally transmit into it.  Older ones such as the
> older palamars did not and I've blown up my share of those.
> 73
> Butch
> WA0VJR
> Node 3148
> Wallace, ks.