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MR.B
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2002 - 10:15 pm: | 
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If i get a birdmeter is it worth is because I don't know i just want it to brag about it. |
JJ
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 12:51 am: |
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Are you for real Mr. B ? ? ? |
bullet/151 southern Indiana
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 12:17 pm: |
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its a nice meter,very accurate and the industries
standard that all other meters hope to beat.but its spendy.
it wont make you louder,and its not as pretty as say a dosy and dont have all the gadgets but it does 3 main things better than about any other meter going.
so if you want a showoff meter buy a dosy test center if you want a very accurate meter buy a bird. |
707
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 1:47 pm: |
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Would you buy a special speedometer for your car, capable of measuring speeds down to .01 MPH and accurate to .1 MPH while running 500 MPH?
My point being, hey, if ya got the bucks, go for it. If you want to get a relative idea of how your system is performing in normal use, plus be able to check other functions simultaneously, then a Dosy would be fine. Why not buy both, if you want to brag? |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 4:56 pm: |
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i have a bird nice but overkill your dosy is fine |
MR.B
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 10:39 pm: |
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MAY GUYS YALL ARE SO SMART THANKS MR.B |
Tech181
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 12:05 am: |
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Nice thing about a Bird, with the interchangeable slugs you can measure almost any wattage on any frequency. The versatility is nice.
Steve
Tech181
Tech181@copperelectronics.com |
bullet/151 southern Indiana
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 8:23 am: |
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steve,
yes it is, your rite. thier as im sure you know many other things you can get for these meters as well to expand thier uses like field strength kits ect. like 707 said if you got the cash for it its a nice meter,as is the dosy test center for what its ment for. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 1:36 pm: |
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IMHO i run a Dosy because i simply cannot afford or want or see the need to spend that big $$$ on a Bird meter. Also i dont particuarly like Birds to well because they dont show that cool looking swing like my good old Dosy does.... JMHO! |
Scrapiron63
| | Posted on Friday, April 19, 2002 - 10:09 am: |
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I think the average radio hand would be very disappointed in a Bird Meter. They are a completly different ballgame than the wattmeters we are use to. In the first place, you pay those big bucks in buying the meter, then discover you gotta have the slugs for different wattages, next you have those numbers to deal with, nothing like the CB meters that actual show your watts output. Hell I know lots of people that can't even read or use a dosy, ha, so what they gonna do with a Bird. One of those old radio shack 29 dollar meters will give you about the same readings as a Bird, no swing or backward swing, and low, low wattage readings. I know a tech that used a Bird for his bench meter for a short time, until he realized people didn't like their 500 watt amplifiers showing 250 watts with backward swing on his Bird meter. |
RCI2990
| | Posted on Saturday, April 20, 2002 - 12:04 am: |
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10-04 Scrappy iron!
Hit it on the head!
Most CB radio shops i frequent all run either the older B&K presiscion meters( the ones that had a tone output in the middle) or Dosys or Black cat meters. A lot of them will not buy a Bird because they are expensive and they get sick of hearing CBers and the truckers belly ache about "Oh that damn Bird meter only shows my modified cobra 29 doing only 8 watts on that guys bird and on my dosy it does 30!" I myself will not have one because of price and the fact that i well, dont need one for what i do..
To each their own i guess..... |
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