RadioBanter - View Single Post - Recommend a Used Bird Wattmeter 50-150 MHz?

September 20th 03, 09:34 PM

On 20 Sep 2003 05:08:32 GMT, (Radio913) wrote:

Can you folks recommend a Bird model?
Slick

Hi OM,

Why do you pine on for such an expensive piece of equipment when what
you admittedly need is a good load? The best Watt meter in the world
is useless without that load. Many loads come with their own built in
Watt meters, and you can build your own Watt meter for about $5 ($4.95
for the meter movement).

I can anticipate your cry for the need of calibration. A used Bird is
far from a standard in that regard - especially when you could achieve
far greater accuracy with a thermometer and a good load sitting in a
bucket of water.

But, then again, maybe there's redemption in you after all in
emulating the time honored Ham tradition of pushing a credit card
across a display case. Pretty soon the FCC will only offer a handful
of call signs (by region) like K6VISA.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC