Mike I strongly recommend the AADC L/C IIB (http://www.mtechnologies.com/aade/#lcm) It has become a pretty much a standard for QRPers interesting in homebrewing. It is far more accurate and useful than the L and/or C measuring ability of most DMMs.
When my sons were growing up and got into cars, I taught them to buy the best tool for the job they were doing, within reason. For L and C measurement, you can't beat the LC IIB. Good luck and 73 Bob N6WG -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Markowski Sent: Saturday, March 05, 2005 12:01 PM To: Elecraft Subject: [Elecraft] Prep time Hi all, I'm a week or two new to the list and am preparing to jump into a K2 building project. I need to upgrade some of my gadgets, though, and one is the DMM - my current one doesn't measure capacitance. Does anyone have any recommendations? Would the cheap one at http://multimeterwarehouse.com/DT9205f.htm be good enough? It's the age old challenge of trying to not spend too much but trying to not buy trash, too. I remember someone's email signature from a few years ago that was along the lines of, "Engineers aren't cheap, they just optimize cost." :-) In that vein, any recommendations for a decent soldering station - maybe Jameco's analog, temp. controlled $58 one with a screwdriver tip? It's Jameco part #229673 at http://jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId =10001&catalogId=10001&productId=129019 The dinky soldering iron I have now has been used to successfully build a QRP rig and a variety of other things, but nothing has been nearly as expensive as a K2 either, so I figure it'd be wise to play it safe. Thanks for any tips! (Pardon the pun.) Mike AB3AP _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
