Bill used to not like email, he always wanted you to call him, but he finally got into the email stuff.  A lot of folks dropped their landline now, and use only cell, so let's hope that is the issue.  He does/did answer his email, but it has been a while since I needed anything from him.

My original question about the RE2 was due to mine being dead apparently, with no specs on the thermocouple, but Mark got some reading for me to compare too, thanks Mark.

The standard method to check a MA meter's internal resistance was to put a pot across it, feed voltage to it, and set the pot for half scale on the meter, then read the ohm value from the pot.  Normally,  a meter with a 6 ma movement will pin out if you put a Simpson 260 on it at RX1, but on the two RE2's I have, I get barely a wiggle.  The only reason I specified 6MA, is had one that had been tagged  '6MA Movement', so somebody must have checked it at one time.  The other note mentioned I did not realize, the meter is not called in amps, just in a relative scale, so without using another metere with an actual amp scale, no idea what the numbers mean.  It would also seem to get 6ma out of a thermocouple might be hard to do too, but don't know.  Guess one test is to just put the 'Remote/Local' switch to remote and put an low MA meter in the circuit to see if it deflects, eliminating the thermocouple as the culprit.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC