Mike,
I agree that meters with a "correction factor" are a pain in the ass.

I'm not quite sure what the significance of your comment about the
silver plating. Why would not having the plating on the Telewave cause
any problems?

Also... it's my opinion that the section on the Telewave meter that
shows that the user needs to change scales (to get to a higher meter
movement) is good. I have serious doubts that any of the meters (Bird
or Coaxial Dynamics) have good accuracy very low on any scale.

As for your intermittent fwd-rev switches... not sure if you bought
these meters new or they were heavily used when you experienced this
problem. In any event... the switch is probably not a very costly
item... and not too hard to replace.

The main reasons for my interest in this meter is:
Don't require DC-1GHz coverage.
Don't like goofing around and keeping track of all those slugs.

Thanks for your input!

Professor
www.telestar-electronics.com