SWR Meter Recommendation

Workman not the best... but not a lot of quality CB/11 meter stuff around these days. I can say I recently bought an Astatic and was surprisingly pleased. It's not the same Astatic company of old, but the meter was pretty nice.

 

Radioshack has one for around $40 that is good.

 

Ive heard that the Radioshack ones were nice. Astatic ones I heard were crap but I think Ill be buying a astatic and hope for the best.

 

Key is Radio Shack WERE nice. Not for a while. No kidding, the Astatic replaced an RS I was given. I watched it fluctuate erratically. Used an old Johnson CB test set I have to verify the RS meter was NG. Threw it away. I am so far happy with the Astatic. Again not the old time quality, but it seems to be OK. The ONLY thing I see is the settings are overly sensitive. A slight adjustment of the knob makes a huge difference. A bit inconvenient but once set it seems to be solid.

 

Well, I can't say I would reommend the workman... and I did'nt. But you were lucky the radio shack was closed... They sell cheap junk at highly inflated prices, Too bad I threw out my radio shack meter right before I got th Astatic. You could have had it for postage, It was the older 3 face model. Still not great but better than what they put out now. The modulation meter was out.... Others were OK. Probably not a difficult repair but I didn't want an RS meter, period. The workman is probably as good as the equivalent RS model, more likely better and I would guess it cost a bit less.

 

Look thru here and buy a good one. $39.95.

http://www.mfjenterprises.com/catalog/mfj/Full_Catalog.pdf

 

MFJ-860, $59.95 Cost little more but much easier to use ( Cross Needles)

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