[Elecraft] What else can we design for you today?

Fri Apr 25 13:32:00 2003

I think a watt meter is a great idea.  But, I would want a truly digital
watt meter.  Having it read in both directions and then calculate SWR would
be nice as well.
73, Doug -- K0DXV

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth E. Harker" <[email protected]>
To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] What else can we design for you today?

>      I would love to see a very accurate wattmeter with three ranges,
> 1-5 W, 1-100 W, and 1-1500 W.  Ideally, the indicator would be an LED bar
> graph just like the one used in the Alpha 87 amplifiers.  Super cool would
> be a wattmeter with a display head that has two LED bar graphs and two
sense
> elements - perfect for two radio contest operation.
>
>      Another great toy would be a transverter interface box that handled
> automatically switching between several transverters.  If it could make
> going from 10M to 6M to 2M as simple as it is to go from 20M to 15M to 10M
> now, that would be awesome.
>
>      Although I already have several Astron linear power supplies, I
> might be interested in an Elecraft switching power supply kit.  It might
> be fun to build a power supply (I've never done it before) and maybe
> the kit would be useful for teaching people how to make RF-quiet
> switchers.
>
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