Hi Alan,

I was thinking more in the realm of something a lot less expensive than 
the powermaster/hampod combo, but good to know it works.

I do run a Wavenode WN-2 computer controlled swr/power meter, and even 
though there is an internal voice in the Wavenode, as well as speech 
from JAWS to give  readings, I have found the tones to be  pretty 
useless.   Too much lag time between  tweaking the knobs and waiting
for the tones to catch up.

A sighted ham  using this setup would   have a  visual display that 
seems to work  better than the tone implementation.

So this is why I keep the TW-1 in line.    Not likely I'll have any 5 kw 
amps here anytime soon, so maybe the TW-1 will keep doing it's job.

73, hope you are doing well, Steve KW3A





On 4/16/2015 8:15 PM, Alan R. Downing wrote:
> Hello Steve, remember that a hampod connected to a Power Master II gives you
> a lot of info, including a tone for tuning up a tube amp.  One nice feature
> of this arrangement is that you don't have to worry about melting a TW-1
> like I did several weeks ago when I ran a bit over 4.0 KW thru one, Hi.  I
> bought a 10 KW coupler for my Power Master II, so I don't have to worry
> about cooking anything.  The TW-1 has a very low threshold for power, and
> when you run more goo thru it than you are supposed to, smelly things
> happen!
>
> Alan - N7MIT
>
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Steve Forst
> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 2:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: What would we like to improve our ham radio
>
> 		A few days late, but I'll throw this one out:  How about an
> inline
> tuning aid for  adjusting manual tuners or tube amps?   Most of us
> aren't able to dig into the  amp to hook up an oscillator, or whatever.
>     A unit to go in the feedline and  act like a TW-1 with tones for
> getting a low SWR, or  for tuning an amp for   high power would be nice.
>
> 73, Steve KW3A
>
>
>