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Cornbrown
Junior Member
Username: Cornbrown
Post Number: 31
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 8:40 am: | 
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Does anyone use the LDG Talking Watt/ SWR meter. Is it any good??? or is it snake oil.
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Vanillagorilla
Intermediate Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 255
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 9:10 am: |
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Where did you see that? Reminds me of the talking radioshack alarm clock.. |
Cornbrown
Junior Member
Username: Cornbrown
Post Number: 34
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, October 05, 2005 - 2:19 pm: |
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Here is the desdription......
"The LDG TW1 provides an aural spoken indication of power and SWR using a digitally recorded voice. It is ideal for the vision-impaired, for those of us in the “bi-focal set”, or just for those times when you need to be looking somewhere else. At the press of a button, the TW-1 speaks the forward power, reverse power or SWR. Three languages are available: English, Spanish and German. It includes its own internal top firing speaker; no external audio hookups are needed.
The TW-1 also offers a continuous tone mode for tuning. Simply press and hold the Forward button, and a tone indicates power. As you adjust your amplifier or antenna tuner, a higher tone indicates higher power. This is just the thing for peaking your amplifier while keeping a close watch on the grid current.
You can select either long or short voice reports (verbose or terse modes). Long reports include descriptors like “thousand” or “hundred” and end with “forward watts” or “reverse watts”. Short reports speak only the numerical value of the measurement you’ve selected for a quick reading.
The TW-1 needs just 1 watts to operate, but will handle up to 2000 watts PEP, making it suitable for everything from QRP to the largest amplifiers in amateur service. The TW-1 is accurate to ± 5% of reading across the entire power range; this may very well be the most accurate wattmeter you own. Resolution is 1 watt or 1% of reading (whichever is higher).
The TW-1 is microprocessor controlled, and can easily be upgrade in the field with a simple chip exchange. It requires 11 – 15 volts DC at 200 mA maximum, but consumes almost no current when not speaking".
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Cornbrown
Junior Member
Username: Cornbrown
Post Number: 35
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 7:30 am: |
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Ok i'll be the test rabbit on this one. I just ordered it. I'll post the results when I get it and set it up. |
Vanillagorilla
Intermediate Member
Username: Vanillagorilla
Post Number: 257
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, October 06, 2005 - 1:53 pm: |
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Please do....sounds like an interesting toy. Can't see why I "NEED" it but then again why do I "NEED" a dozen radios, 4 antennas....
BTW...thanks for the PM!
Hank |
Cornbrown
Junior Member
Username: Cornbrown
Post Number: 38
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Friday, October 07, 2005 - 5:07 pm: |
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I got it in the mail today. It's sweet looking. I won't be able to test it until I get my antenna up. I plugged it up for giggles and pushed the button for FWD watts and the Voice said 0 watts> pushed the button for reverse watts the voice said 0 reflected or is it reverse watts> pushed the SWR button and it said zero. Note this is with the meter not connected to anything. I can hardly wait to hook it up and give it a test run.
Maybe Copper can have Lon test one and post the results. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 7539
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 5:20 am: |
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Cornbrown,
I would be happy to do a Review on any item but personally I would NEVER use a talking meter that you have to constantly keep pushing a button to find out what the SWR is.
That would mean on the Sunday CEF Nets I would be pushing that stupid button 5000 times and my poor old fingers could not take it. 
With three different antennas in the air, I do NOT want to have to push a button every time I flip the antenna switch to hear what the SWR is.
I WANT TO SEE WHAT THE SWR IS ALL THE TIME / EVERY TIME I KEY THE MIC.
Any Thing can happen to an antenna at Any Time and if you have to keep pushing a button to find out what the SWR is, that would get Old Real Fast.
It sounds like a neat "toy" but I personally would not trust one or feel safe using one.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN
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Cornbrown
Junior Member
Username: Cornbrown
Post Number: 41
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, October 08, 2005 - 7:55 am: |
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I hear you Lon. But I still like it for maybe the wow factor. The company did ask if I had any suggestions to make the prduct better. I am going to suggest a Led display to show Watts and SWR along the voice. Anyway I think it would be a hot seller at Copper if you determined it was accurate in your test |
Crazybob
New member
Username: Crazybob
Post Number: 4
Registered: 12-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 - 1:16 am: |
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I got one for a blind CB'er. He loves it! It cost 150.00. It goes up to 2kw. It also tells you your swr. You can change it from english to spanish, or german. BTW-if you yell loud, it will tell you peak watts! |
477
Intermediate Member
Username: 477
Post Number: 238
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 6:11 am: |
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The think LDG Talking Watt/SWR meter is for the blind. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 13079
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 5:14 pm: |
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Or for anyone who forgets to constantly look at their meter's every time they key up when transmitting or do not have lighted meter's for use at night. 
Lon ~ Tech808 ~ N9CEF
CEF#808 ~ CEF HAM#33 ~ CVC#002
10-10 #61493 ~ 10-10 VP#2688
Tech808@copperelectronics.com
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Skywalker975
Junior Member
Username: Skywalker975
Post Number: 37
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 2:53 am: |
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I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS METER. WHERE CAN A PIC OF IT BE SEEN AT? BELEAVE IT WOULD BE AN IDEA FOR MY DAD SINCE HE DONT SEE AS GOOD AS HE USE TO. |
