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Buddy Brannan <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:45:14 -0400
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Hang on, some time ago there was an article for an audible SWR meter  
by someone who used to be on this list. I'll have to dig it up.
On Mar 19, 2008, at 9:36 AM, Shaun Oliver wrote:
> I could I suppose build a tone osilator to run between the radio and  
> the
> antenna, that wouldn't be too hard, take apart an old vswr meter and
> drop an osilator and speaker in in place of the guts of the vswr  
> meter.
>
> Shaun
> web sites:
> http://www.myspace.com/blindmanshaunoliver
> http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/
> skype: brailledude
>
>
> On 20/03/2008 12:27 AM, the old scribe known as Howard Kaufman was  
> able
> to impart this pearl of wisdom:
>> I'd trust the attenuated rx more than the marked knobs.  Something  
>> like rain
>> might change the tuning, and your marks wouldn't be accureate.  I  
>> don't know
>> why you are trying to read the internal meter, rather than the watt  
>> meter
>> outside the radio.  If you do it that way, you have a system that  
>> you can
>> use to tune any radio, not just one.
>>
>>
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