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Old November 27th 10, 09:55 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
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Default SWR meter as power meter

I have a Homebrewed SWR meter I was thinking of calibrating it to read
power by appling a dial for the "full scale adjust" potentiometer.
Meter would be initially calibrated against a know accurate wattmeter.
Variable HIgh Power RF source would be an Amateur band SSB TX
modulated by a single tone audio source. Power varied by adjusting the
level of the tone. Power would be read from the dial pointer. One
thought is to use a difference meter reference for each ham band ....
10M full scale 15M a little less. Any thought s on this method would
be appreciated.


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