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Almost everyone has
a multimeter these days but radio amateurs need that bit more, a lot of it
is very expensive but equivalents can often be built at home.
Click on pictures to enlarge.
AD8307
Power meter.
Extremely useful around the shack is a low power RF meter, this one from a
design in QST magazine uses an AD8307 log amplifier which gives a range of
-74dBm to +17dBm right up to 500Mhz.
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Spectrum Monitor (analyzer).
As I can't justify (yet) spending several hundred pounds on a commercial
spectrum analyzer I've built an economy version from a kit donated by Rod
G0IYQ. Using a "hyperband" TV tuner it covers 47 to 860Mhz in three ranges
which with the addition of an up-converter for 1-50Mhz gives a very
acceptable alternative to the real thing. Using an oscilloscope for the
display you get a reasonable idea of what your transmitter is putting out.
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LC Meter.
Built to a design I found on the internet, this LC meter is turning out
to be extremely useful when constructing RF projects, great for matching
capacitors. You can find more
details
here.
I've made my own PCB using the laser printer/inkjet photo paper method which works well
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