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Re: [Amps] Bird wattmeter

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Bird wattmeter
From: Steve Thompson <g8gsq@eltac.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 19:01:39 +0100
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Tom W8JI wrote:
> Also let's be fair. The standard Bird 43 Bird is +- 5% full 
> scale accuracy.

If I remember correctly, it's +/-5% of fsd at any reading - so a reading 
at 50% fsd has an error of +/-10% and so on.

As you say, immaterial in the context of radio links, maybe not always 
immaterial if an amplifier has a sharp transition into non-linearity and 
the meter is reading low.

Steve
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