[Lowfer] L/c meter for $35 on ebay

Mon Jul 25 09:49:18 EDT 2011

Dick & all, I have the AADE LCM I bought from Kanga kits. You can have 
it when you pry my cold dead fingers from it! It is indespensible when 
building. I have both a Heath QM-1 and Boonton 260 q-meters but the 
AADE is so quick to use they seldom get turned on. I hope the Chinese 
lcm is half as good. I did take the "chicken route" and bought the AADE 
assembled, I think it was $129.00 plus shipping. 

Dave wa5wk0 and I used it to measure his ASHLOCK loop, and make a test 
coil for bench work to set up the matching network for HSA. In building 
the network I found some  silver micas marked 2200pf and one marked 
222pf. The change in marking threw me as the one marked 222 is also 
2200pf. For the small mono caps I have to get out a jewlers loop to 
read the markings, with the AADE meter it is quick to read. 

I use several of the Harbor Frieght dvm's sold for $4.00. Last trip to 
Harbor Frieght my buddy Dave bought a DVM for $19.00 that has 1 inch 
letters on the lcd. It also has , in addition to the normal DVM scales 
for resistance,current and voltage, a freq meter(0 to 20khz) and a 
capacitance meter. 

Until Dave receives his lcm and dds generator we won't know the exact 
size, meanwhile we are looking for a suitable enclosure. Altoids tins 
may be too small. If anyone has an Idea for an enclosure please post it. 

Paul Daulton k5wms

Quoting Dick Goodman <wa3usg at verizon.net>:
>  Have you guys seen this unit. It's a kit from "Almost all Digital
> Electronics". I built one and it works great. On his web site, he has a link
> to a very nice filter design program. I used it to build a 100 KHz notch
> filter back in the LORAN days. It worked great ... And I wound & measured
> all of the inductors using his L/C meter. Don't overlook this one!
>
> http://www.aade.com/lcmeter.htm
>
> 73
> Dick, WA3USG
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:lowfer-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of jrusgrove at comcast.net
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 6:13 AM
> To: Discussion of the Lowfer (US,European, & UK) and MedFer bands
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] L/c meter for $35 on ebay
>
> Bought one also ... but the packaged version. We'll see how it works. 
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160511337908&ssPageName=S
> TRK:MEWAX:IT
>
> Could have used it just the other day. Wanted to measure stray tank C in a
> pr 3-500Z amplifier. 
> Battery power, small size and ability to measure small C values would have
> made it ideal for that application. 
>
> Jay W1VD  WD2XNS  WE2XGR/2
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lee" <fccpart15 at earthlink.net>
> To: <k5wms at centurytel.net>; "Discussion of the Lowfer (US,European,&UK) and
> MedFer bands"
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>; "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &,UK) and
> MedFer bands"
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 12:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Lowfer] L/c meter for $35 on ebay
>
>
> > Mine is in the mail. I will let folks know how it worked out. I was
> spending a lot of time looking
> > for a surplus piece of test equipment to do the same thing. Looks like I
> might be happy that did
> > not work out. 
> > Lee
> > KE6PCT
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >>From: Paul Daulton <k5wms at centurytel.net>
> >>Sent: Jul 21, 2011 7:31 PM
> >>To: "Discussion of the Lowfer (US, European, &, UK) and MedFer bands"
> <lowfer at mailman.qth.net>
> >>Subject: Re: [Lowfer] L/c meter for $35 on ebay
> >>
> >>My buddy Dave wa5wko has ordered one of these. He also ordered one of
> >>the 0-5mhz function generators I mentioned in an earlier post. 
> >>
> >>While on ebay look at the dds generators, they look like the same
> >>company that built the l/c meter built them also. 
> >>
> >>Paul
> >>
> >>Quoting Zack Widup <w9sz.zack at gmail.com>:
> >>> Well, if they are as good as the specs show, it looks like a good deal. 
> I
> >>> might just order one and see. I've been looking for something like that. 
> >>>
> >>> 73, Zack W9SZ
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Paul Daulton <k5wms at centurytel.net>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > I found an assembled l/c meter on ebay Here are two like items from
> >>> > different vendors. 
> >>> >
> >>> > 260820826710
> >>> >
> >>> > 150504831155
> >>> >
> >>> > one is $32.95 other is 35.95. note these are fully assembled and
> shipping
> >>> > is paid. If I didnt already have an AADE lc meter I would order one. 
> >>> >
> >>> > I also found several dds modules just search on ebay for AD9851 in
> consumer
> >>> > electronics. 
> >>> >
> >>> > Let me know what you think. 
> >>> >
> >>> > Paul Daulton K5WMS
> >>> > beacon WMS 185.302 khz qrss30/slow 24/7
> >>> > Jacksonville,Ar 72076
> >>> > em34wu
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Paul Daulton K5WMS
beacon WMS 185.302 khz qrss30/slow 24/7
Jacksonville,Ar 72076
em34wu