Hi Alan
Yes, rugged indeed. :)) They are very well built, almost too well,
with more bolts than I have seen in a hardware store, when it comes
to taking them apart for repairs. Where four bolts would do,
W&G put eight. I too, find them useful for test equipment. I
have the SG-4 storage display unit and my SPM-19 has the built in
tracking generator, so it works as a poor man's spectrum analyzer,
especially useful in the low to mid frequency range. I have found
it very helpful to look at filters and such. But you are very right
when you say not to expect them to operate like a conventional radio
and they take some time getting used to, as they were built for a
very different reason than radio reception. Nice to have, but not
essential kit.
Terry
VE3XTM
On 01/05/2015 13:28, Alan Melia wrote:
Hi Terry I have the 12 and a 3
both with PS and SPM. They do work if you are aware of likely
problems but yes they need some external help usually. I feel
it is important that potential buyers realise that they are
not receivers like they are probably used to. They are
brilliant and useful pieces of test gear and the W&G kit
is very ruggedly made.......you need to be a bit rugged
yourself to hump some of it around :-))
Alan
G3NYK
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Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015
6:06 PM
Subject: Re: LF: Re: HP
3586C selective level meter for LF and MF
Hi Alan
I would be interested to know which W&G selective level
meters you have. I have the SPM-16 and the SPM-19 and use them
with a preamp and AM broadcast band notch filter. They seem to
work reasonably well and signals compare well to my Flex 5000
with a Palomar Engineering VLF upconverter. However, I live in
Canada and we have very little in the way of MW stations other
than NDBs operating on the bands. I do from time to time pick
up MW stations from France, Germany and Iceland.
Terry
VE3XTM EN93un
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