I'm intermittently doing some final FAT (first-article tests) on my little toy pulse generator, but I'm frying 20 dB attenuators. This seems to help:
It doesn't help that the box's output SMA connector gets hot all by itself.
Probably some ham has worked out optimum stacking of attenuators.
I wonder how it's possible to make a multi-GHz, hundreds of watts attenuator. Big and fast don't usually go together.