Ah Howard!  I too am a lover of the pipe.

I thought there was a different control you can hold in to activate a tone 
for tuning?

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From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 5:01 PM
Subject: talking watt meter


> We just went out to spend money, which we did.
> Pipe tobacco, rib-eye steaks that melt in your mouth, and a talking
> watt meter.  All we missed was beer.
> Anyway, the meter talks fine, but is their a better way of tuning up
> the radio?  rapid beaps that settle down when the swr is flat, but
> nothing changing pitch if you have to peek and load an amplifier.  I
> am very disappointed, unless I am missing something.
> Reading the output speech is far to slow for sweep tube loading.
>
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