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Autek and such
Autek and Palstar is over the price range by some dollars. I wanted to limit this to fully featured affordable meters. The autek is an SWR type meter designed to focus on SWR and power and nothing else in terms of station monitoring such as Modulation percentage. With the...
Astatic 700 taking the lead, its a good meter with a very very big meter face, tough to decipher at first but once you get used to it offers a lot of resolution, too bad no headphone monitor function on it. I have a friend with one who after one year of use, busted the meter by repeatedly...
Review please
Ok, a lot of you read this post and I see that 5 people took the plunge and ordered one off the bay. Please let us know how is the meter in terms of meter face quality, mechanical quality of the knobs and it its easy to adjust, I'm thinking of getting one too. Price is still...
diode detector with flat response variable audio amp.
RF diode detector with flat response variable audio amp based on the LM386 chip commonly used in musical instrument pickup amps, this is what the Dosy TC-4002-PSW-V has inside of it, and you plug your stereo or mono headphones (its wired for...
Diode detector audio circuit with op amp and headphones
Diode detector audio circuit with op amp and headphones as in the Dosy Meters. It will detect your audio from the RF and put out to headphones. By adjusting the volume of the monitor to comfortable listening, you can use this to set your...
Ok, you're at a CB break with all your buddies and you won the door prize. The prize is your choice of the following meters. You don't currently own a meter and you are so excited that you get to choose one. Which 1 would you choose for your prize?
antenna switch separation
Antenna switch isolation can show some coupling I won't deny it, but then again you have to realize that the switching paths in a Dosy are not built in extruded aluminum cavities either. Perhaps your friend should match his complaint with an equal amount of money and...
I would say that a new one has the cap
I would say that a new one has the cap as it has a peak setting. I remember mine showed 70% of true peak when new and as it aged- about 12 years, it would not show peak readings very well anymore. Good meter for the current retail price of under $40 now...
I've used one at a radio repair shop -
I've used one at a radio repair shop. There are two versions of this, one is lighted and the other is not. It is not an active meter. The meter case is metal and well built, unfortunately the one that I used had broken switches and the modulation...
Oh, yours is the PSW lighted meter
Oh, yours is the PSW lighted meter, that is the topline model, replaced with a version that has additional volume fine tuning knob for audio monitoring with included headphones. A brand new one comes complete with headphones and a wall wart power supply to...
Used condition with some wear go for about half price of new one
Used condition with some wear go for about half price of new ones.
4002-SW can be modded for lighting which I think you did. Nice serviceable meters that outlive their owners.
It's all true
It's all true, and I have all the receipts and shipping tracking to prove it, even the one that shows UPS taking it from Indiana to Canada and then back to the U.S.A. and finally to my location on an overnight red label shipment. My Dosy TC-4002-PSW-V and FC50S sideband freq...
Ranger SRA-158
I can vouch for the Ranger SRA-158, sounds almose as good like a RK-56 with good lows and high freq response, but with the output level of a power mic. Price is good and looks good. If you are looking to spend, however, the RK-56 is your best bet for non amplified IMO I also...
Wow, looks cool, but too bad maxes out at 1kW. Anyone get one of these yet to review? I would jump on it if it had 2kW or more capacity, but instead I just keep staring at the pictures and thinking of a way to modify it to a 2kW meter.
By the way, I think its made by Dosy, can someone...
My opinion on the Astatic 600
I got my Astatic 600 because it was the only model they had at the radio shop when I purchased my new radio and paid only a small sum for, almost a throw-in for buying my new transceiver at the shop. The meter worked 100% when I got it about 4 months ago and still...
X-mas present to myself
that last Dosy I bought was made six days before Christmas 2011, it came one day late because UPS sent it international by accident (can you believe that???) and Dosy refunded my shipping cost completely. So it took me about 3 weeks time to get a working Dosy from the...
sales lingo
I spent my youth reading a lot of brochures (that happens when you don't have a dollar to spend but businesses will send you brochures for the price of a stamp), but believe me I have no salesmanship at all. I can talk tech though because I am in engineering.
C'mon, call...
They look cool!
They look cool, don't they, haha! And they work reliably for those with electronics knowledge. I'm not a sales rep. but I will tell you that I had a good experience with their support when I bought two of those 4002-PSW, both made in December 2011, and a freq counter with...
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