Hi Jim,
When I started as WN6CFF in June 1970, my Hammarlund Super-Pro BC-779
had an S meter. It only goes up to 9 and it takes whopping signal to do
that. Only VOA, Radio Moscow and Radio Nederland ever moved that needle
much. Most of the people I QSOed with my home brew two tube crystal
controlled transmitter (1968 ARRL Handbook) and that Super-Pro barely
moved that S meter. It did not matter. I still worked them. Even so I
would never, ever put a piece of masking tape over that meter. By the
way it uses a bayonet socketed pilot lamp in the S meter, and the tuning
and bandspread dials use screw in (micro Edison base?) pilot lamps. And
those push-pull 6V6s really could hurt your ears if you weren't careful
with the gain controls.
DE N6KB
My suggestion is to put a piece of masking tape over the meter face and if you
can hear it work it. How did we ever function before the advent of all the
fancy gadgets.
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