[Elecraft] DL1 Voltmeter Impedance

Darrell Bellerive [email protected]
Thu Apr 15 17:46:01 2004


The DL1 manual specifies a high impedance voltmeter be used for power
measurements.

I have an old Radio Shack analogue voltmeter that has a sensitivity of
2000 ohms per volt. I would like to use this as an indicator for tuning
my K2 as it is much easier to see peaks than on my DMM. Is this too low
an input impedance?

I am not going to use this meter for voltage measurements, as I have a
good DMM for that, but just for peaking tuned circuits. Will this low
meter impedance affect the load on the K2? I don't want the meter to
cause the dummy load impedance to change enough to affect alignment of
the K2.

Darrell   VE7CLA   K2 #1973