[Elecraft] Recommended Fluke?

[Mike McCoy]

Points well taken. Checked out the WaveTek 27XT and decided that's the one
for me.  Done deal (for $65) and thanks for the input!

definately gonna hang on to the Simpson as well (and oh yea, a Heathkit VTVM
I built eons ago was my very first piece of test equipment ever.)

73
Mike AD5IU (just got my new Extra call today... lotsa dits in this one ;)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Kincade" <w5kp@swbell.net>
To: "Mark J. Dulcey" <mark@buttery.org>; "Mike McCoy"
<mikemccoy@austin.rr.com>
Cc: "Elecraft List" <elecraft@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Recommended Fluke?


> Another happy Wavetek 27XT user!  I've had mine for 5 or 6 years, wouldn't
> part with it. Faster and just as accurate as my Fluke meters, well fused
> (important), and inexpensive. I like it better than my Flukes because I
> dislike autoranging (most autoranging functions are slow as heck), and
> prefer to manually set my meter ranges - so the 27XT gets much more bench
> use than the Fluke stuff. It checks inductors as well as capacitors. It's
> also got a no-frills freq counter function, good to about 20 mHz. I
checked
> it against my HP bench counter, and it was very close, but only reads to 4
> digits, of course. Handy to see if you are in the ball park.. Best little
> $100 meter around, IMHO! Fluke, who knows a good thing when they see it,
> recently bought out Wavetek, and is still marketing the Waveteks as their
> economy line meters under the "MeterMan" name. I think they are now bright
> orange. I'm not knocking Fluke, they make fine equipment and I own some,
but
> when they tried to make their handhelds totally idiot proof with
> autoranging, they also made them clumsy and slow to use, far as I'm
> concerned.
>
> I second the motion on the analog meter - but instead of the Simpson 260
> (which, being a VOM, will load a circuit under test pretty badly) I'd find
a
> good clean VTVM that works (with original probe!), and hang onto it.
Totally
> indispensable around the bench for alignments of all kinds. The Heath
IM-18
> is a good one, there are many others, mostly kit-built years ago. I think
> mine is an Eico 222 that cost me $5 plus the cost to recap it's tiny
little
> power supply. It works great.
> 73, Jerry W5KP
>
> >
> > By the way, hang on to the Simpson. Analog meters are handier than
> > digital for peaking and nulling adjustments. And there may be occasions
> > when you want two meters at the same time.