[Amps] Grid dip meters 2 models, opinions?

[Jim Brown]

On 9/5/2017 2:47 AM, Conrad PA5Y wrote:
> The VNWA3 needs a PC to work which is also not convenient 

Understood.

> and is also 10 times more expensive. 

Yes. But as others have observed, it does SO much more that a GDO 
cannot, or cannot do easily or with much precision. Like characterizing 
components to include their parasitic R, L, and C, making TDR 
measurements, swept antenna measurements that can exported to design 
software like SimSmith, and 2-port measurements of networks and filters, 
and of the crosstalk between antennas.  A few months ago, I needed to 
select capacitors from my "junk box" with low ESR at the frequency of 
interest for a circuit. The VNWA 3e made that very easy.  Years before, 
I used my VNWA 3E to align bandpass filters, simultaneously monitoring 
attenuation and return loss vs frequency as I adjusted the coils. Just 
as I had done 50 years ago tuning up some of the first Drake TR3s. 
There, the test equipment cost a LOT more.

73, Jim K9YC