[QRP] Which SWR/PWR meter for 1 Watt QRP?

LEE BAHR pulsarxp at embarqmail.com
Fri Aug 20 01:33:32 EDT 2010


I would say the Oak Hills Research WM-2 meter is the Cadillac of QRP meters, 
100mw, 1w, 10w.  (Not the cheapest meter out there but this thing is done 
first class with a first class meter and cabinet).

Lee, w0vt





> Oak Hills Research has an excellent meter with three
> scales 0 to 10 watts, 0 to 1 watt and 0 to 100 mw.  Can
> get as a kit or as an assembled unit. Unit is the WM-2
>
> 72, Mac, kr0i
>
>
> In a message dated 8/19/2010 11:38:06 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> kd5hcl at yahoo.com writes:
>
> Are  there any swr/pwr meters optimized for use at the 1 watt level? I 
> have
> a meter  which has a low setting of 10 watts, however its really useless 
> at
> a watt.  Even among the cb (which is max 5w , right?) I dont see anything
> less than 10w  full scale(which makes 1w look like a very small deflection
> due to the  logarithmic scale)
>
> If there are no 1 or 2.5 watt full scale meters  commercially made, has
> anyone seen a QST/Handbook project for building  one?
>
> 73,
> Glenn
>
> -.-
>
>
>
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