[RFI] TV RFI

[K4RO Kirk Pickering]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:44:31AM -0800, Commander John W9ZY wrote:
> I found your photo of the swr/field strength meter interesting. 
> I have one very simular to yours. 

I purchased the meter at Lafayette Electronics in NYC in about 1976.
I even still have the little FS antenna around here somewhere...


> it looks like you are connected to the top port where there use
>  to be a small screw in antenna for field strength.  I can not
> see clearly how you have the wires connected .  Is one connected
> to the screw port and the other to ground on the top of your meter?

Yes, I have one wire attached to the antenna terminal with a spade
lug and a small screw threaded the same as the antenna base. The other
wire (ground) is simply clamped to the SO-238 socket using a PL-259
push-on adapter.  

Now that I know about the need for a loading resistor, I'll probably build 
that into a PL-259 with a short coax jumper to the sense coil. The twisted
green wire was just the closest thing available at the time.

73

-Kirk  K4RO