I was unaware of this product until Jim Miller of Comtek Systems brought it to my attention recently. It turns out that Radio Shack is closing them out so if you are interested you may want to call y
Rolfe, Have you tried the meter with the 500 feet of cable attached yet? I'm curious of the units ability to drive that much line, as usually this type of situation would require line amps. One would
It seems to work fine -- I haven't checked it against a Bird only because I don't have any way of remotely keying the transmitter. But the readings are completely consistent with what I would expect.
Author: "k4sb@worldnet.att.net"@worldnet.att.net (Edward W. Sleight)
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 05:43:11 -0700
Rolfe, the next time you want to key the rig from the shack while up the tower or so forth, place your rigs' mike near the speaker of your two meter radio. Set for VOX, and then use a handheld from t
How would you make sure that it couldn't be keyed by someone else while you are working on the antennas? I'd hate to be making an adjustment & have the rig key up, especially with an amplifier turned
while adjustment & Use CTCSS encode and decode, and choose an odd-ball PL. Remove the antenna from the 2 meter rig in the shack (Or attenuate it so you can still key it up). Not 100% fool-proof, but
<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> And an odd-ball frequency. 73, Bill W7TI -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com Admi
Hi, What modes does have this meter ? Average, PEP, PEP Hold ? How precise is the PEP measurement in SSB ? 73 de Morel, 4X1AD -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: t
I tried substituting a 500 foot run of telephone cable between another manufacturer's SWR/wattmeter and its remote coupler. Works just fine, with no loss of accuracy. I imagine the Shack unit will wo
Since my antenna site is 250 feet down a hill from the shack, I put together a setup whereby I can send commands from a battery-driven portable packet station (HT, Baycom TNC, HP 100LX palmtop) to my
It has average and peak modes -- no peak hold as far as I can tell. As I do not have another peak reading meter, I can't offer any comments on accuracy in this mode. In average mode, it agrees with m
Rolfe, I have seen a lot of interest over the last few days on the Radio Shack units. I purchased two of them about a month ago and was quite disappointed. Both were very poor on power calibration (
I certainly wouldn't get rid of my Bird 43 for the Radio Shack, that's for sure. But for the case where the remote-sensing head needs to be widely separated from the display, it seems like a worthwhi