Tom said:
>Average makes no sense to me, since a receiver S meter is
not an averaging measurement device.
I would add a correction that the level is not the average,
but rather the peak power contained in the filter bandwidth.<
Additionally, all too often, the 'S' in 'S meter' stands for 'suspicious. The
resolution isn't going to be any too good, either, and as Tom says, it doesn't
give an average value.
Another approach might be to use an AF power meter with an average detector (I
have a feeling that this is maybe a VU meter?), switch the AGC off, and use the
attenuator to adjust the levels to some reference level.
Of course, there's a further approach - that I heard many years ago - 'I can't
be splattering, I'm using a Collins transceiver!' Co-incidental, of course, but
that particular guy got 4 years in prison for running a fraudulent motor
insurance company...........he's dead now.
73
Peter G3RZP
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