This started as a barn find. Over the years, I've had a few of these, and found them to be pretty accurate when calibrated against a known good meter. It's also easy to add a 2000 watt range, but I didn't do it to this one. I decided to modify this one to be a passive peak reading meter, and here's the scoop...
A friend gave me this Radio Shack HF wattmeter. It was originally intended for CB. I cleaned, touched up the face, and calibrated it. It's pretty darn accurate on power and SWR on 160-10 meters, and not bad on 6! Adding it to the shack :-)
I had an old Daiwa CN-101 HF watt meter kicking around the shack with a bad meter movement. I had thought about tossing it out, but being the pack ratt I am, I tossed it on the shelf. While browsing the for sale bits on QRZ one day, I saw a person with a replacement meter for sale, for one they planned to repair, but never did. I bought it for $10 shipped, stuck it in, and back in service it is. It's not a bad little meter, and was certainly worth saving for $10! Here's a few pics...
