actually, there is another design that will work. it just requires a 555 timer IC, about 10 or 11 parts and a 9 volt battery. One of the parts can be a piezon-electric transducer. There is a audio watt meter that uses something like this. However, its design is not sensitive enough to function as a field strength meter. I might get hold of the maker of it and suggest some designs he might look at.

DE n7zzt Eric

On Nov 11, 2015, at 8:48 PM, Tom Fowle wrote:

> Ed,
> Yeah I know you don't want to build, but since I don't know of a commercial
> device, there is at least one design in the
> Smith-Kettlewell Technical File
> http://legacy.ski.org/rehab/sktf/index.html
> It's based on a very old circuit from the braille technical press days
> called "audio gimmick"
> two transistors a simple audio transformer and a few parts. 
> Look for the article called 
> "gimmicks old and new" I think that's where you'll find the field strength
> meter.
> 
> Let me know if you can't find it and care <GRIN>
> 73
> tom Fowle WA6IVG
> 
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:27:40PM -0700, Ed Malmgren wrote:
>> Where can a person get a field strength meter, audio of corse.  I am not in 
>> the moode to build things other than antennas any more? Could it be lazy or 
>> have I done too much of those kind of things hi hi.  73
>> 
>> ED K7UC