How do you check the difference between dead key and swing I have a Workman SWR and wattmeter but when I talk into it it doesn't seem to swing the watt meter it just holds steady at four and a half Watts any ideas am I using the wrong meter thank you for your time
Are you looking to get 100 watts Peak or Average? I have a 203 in line with a President Bill with the dead-key set at 1.75 - 2.0 watts and it spits out about 75 watts average and works just fine. 102" stainless whip, spring, Breedlove Quick-disconnect Stake Pocket mount on a F-350.
You need to use a watt meter that reads average and peak. There is usually a switch to go between the two.
I have the crappy Workman 3p which is a dual watt meter and SWR meter but there's no other switches then forward and reflective and 10 watts and 100 Watts switches
Ya…it’s only reading average power. Need a peak reading meter.
you need meter with pep setting,however when in set mode some meters you set needle midrange key up n whistle to see pep
Take the radio and amp to a "pro" and have him/her set / adjust the radio and amp to obtain good results without damaging anything. Sometimes the "swing" can hurt the amp.
I found the am modulation adjustment in the so-called secretmenu of the Andy2, I'm putting in 1.75/2 watts deadkey and moves the needle to 3/4.5 watts as I say the ol dreaded "auuuuu....Dio" [.. THAT IS PEP or 'Swing' RIGHT? Idk, anyway.] "auuuuu,dio" before it even gets to amp. After that I'M Assuming my kl203p is throwing that signal thru my sloper 11 meter ,(8.6in. Per side 14ft apex to 2ft off ground) dipole . At about 70 watts at the peak of the word "audio??? that good I'm I right in my assumptions of pep and peak watts and Swing amount ? I'm going by what you cats talk about and try to copy it best we can,lol. It's the Swing and pepwatt stuff that's that is confusing thanks for sharing your thoughts bro.do you ever get skip from so.nev.? Or you can help,think it out, throw out ideas, questions, there is only so much a search engine can do.isnt this the Entire Reason For Forums? Thanks for sharing your inspirational comments( ie: go look it up.)
Tried, cheap meter. Garage sale hobbyist , food more important at this point. Got new now.testing in progress. Will post more when I have a handle on stuf.lol confusion....
Got one couple days ago,got a chance to use it and compare to my other meters cheap and midrange and against my friends big big dollar stuff.so cool.love cbs. Wife loves them more...
Cool! Which meter did you get? Was it close to the big dollar meter in terms of accuracy??
you lucky man. your wife likes radio too,get her great radio encourage her
