Donald
The Bird is accurate to 5% of full scale, so if you are running 200 watts on
432 then go
with an element that will give you best “repeatability” of readings. 400- 1000
like a 250E or 500E if you are running higher powers…
Also note from the Bird manual, from the response curves.. a 500C works well
up to 1000 MHz, where it rolls off 1dB…so your C could work ok…
and save you $$
Google the bird manual its got a lot of good info.
Which PEP board did u get?
73 Dana VE3DS FN03
> On Jun 28, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Donald Fox via VHFcontesting
> <vhfcontesting@contesting.com> wrote:
>
> Gents:
> Trying to decide whether to pick up a D or E series element to go with my 43
> for my 432 station.
> I recently added an aftermarket PEP board, and will have between 150-200
> watts out of a TE 4452 amp.
> Since I already have several C series elements that cover 2/220 well, it
> seems to make sense to consider the E series so I would then be able to
> measure up to
> 1 ghz and probably 1.2 with some loss of accuracy.
>
> The second question here is whether to get a 250 or 500 element as the price
> is the same?
>
> Thoughts please from those who have been down this road already........
>
>
> Don N8ECH
>
>
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