Came from me. I apologize for my feeble old mind. Shudda looked at the several Bird manuals around here.
Like many of us old timers I have several different Bird setups. As someone else mentioned, there are many versions that show up in the various hamfest and e-Bay venues. Never rely on a used element ... being round they've almost certain to have rolled and bounced of the floor. They're easily damaged. I have several double line-section castings that I use in my station to simultaneously monitor both forward and reflected power at the same. At one time I had close ties to the FBI's western US operations and their stations -always- had double meters with dual-element castings on separate panels Still, the Bird product line has a number of "gotcha's" lurking to catch the unwary. My case has a dedicated 50 ohm length of line that is a measured length that's calculated to include the length that includes the length within the casting ... at 147.00 MHz where most of my measurements are taken. All of mine are fitted with "N" connectors, etc. Enough, already ... I apologize for the 20% error figure ... It was unintentional. (:-(( 73! K0PP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
