[Amps] Time for New Power Meter

[robrk at nidhog.net]

There’s a chart in the manual for the Bird 43 that shows what change in reading is, outside the freq range of the slug

Page 4-5….

http://www.repeater-builder.com/test-equipment/bird/pdf/bird-43-wattmeter-old.pdf <http://www.repeater-builder.com/test-equipment/bird/pdf/bird-43-wattmeter-old.pdf>


A few years ago, when the Kenwood TS 940 was hot, a guy went through six of them and a wife trying find one that the meter would “talk up” to the right power.

"‘Scopes were not good for anything”.

Might have been the same guy who needed an antenna tuner to “get them swr’s out of his antenna."



> On May 5, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Kevin Stover <kevin.stover at mediacombb.net> wrote:
> 
> I may be late to this dance but isn't that why they sell more than one slug at different power ratings? A 2500W slug could be off by +/- 125W, a 100W slug would be off by +/-5W anywhere on the meter.
> 
> On Sun, 03 May 2015 19:19:41 -0400
> "Joe Subich, W4TV" <lists at subich.com> wrote:
> 
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