{"id":28418,"date":"2011-11-08T02:07:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T01:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/?p=28418"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:16:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T14:16:23","slug":"mb-1-programmable-rf-power-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/new-equipment\/mb-1-programmable-rf-power-meter\/","title":{"rendered":"MB-1 Programmable RF Power Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28419 \" title=\"hi-res-green_led_full_meter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/hi-res-green_led_full_meter.jpg 1530w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28420 \" title=\"interior-top-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"801\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/interior-top-large.jpg 1494w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 801px) 100vw, 801px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Features:<\/strong><br \/>\nA Fully Programmable Amateur Radio Power Meter.<\/p>\n<p>Many of these features are unique to <em>MeterBuilder.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Program MB-1 to interface with up to four remote couplers with Full Scale power ranges from 1 watt to 30,000 watts in steps of 1 watt.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Includes a <em><strong>Linear Scale<\/strong><\/em> Crossneedle Analog Meter with Real Time response capable of tracking voice and CW signals.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have multiple rigs at different locations in your shack?\u00a0 With the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meterbuilder.com\/mb1\/pictures-expansion-kit.html\">Expansion Kit<\/a>, you can add up to two additional Crossneedle meters or up to four additional single needle meters, and place an analog panel meter at each station.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">15 Bit effective low range Resolution.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">MB-1 does away with the need for proprietary couplers &#8211; Use MB1&#8217;s Patent Pending Calibration Routines to reuse Existing Couplers &#8211; even Couplers in existing equipment.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">RF Ammeter &#8211; Use MB1-s calibration features to measure RF Current (requires an RF current sensor), or use MB-1&#8217;s Patent Pending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meterbuilder.com\/mb1\/docs\/mb1-generic-meter-applications-v1.01.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Generic Meter capability<\/a> to interface to almost any analog sensor or transducer.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Need a high-visibility numeric readout and bar graph display for easy viewing at a distance? Attach the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meterbuilder.com\/mb1\/expansion.html#External_High_Visibility_7-Segment_Display\">Hi Visibility 7-Segment LED Display modules<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meterbuilder.com\/mb1\/expansion.html#External_High_Visibility_Bar_Graph\">Hi Visibility LED Bar Graph module<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Auto-Max Bar Graph &#8211; Automatically adapts the Bar Graph&#8217;s full scale value to the maximum encountered signal in 1 watt steps, eliminating the need to choose from a compromise set of fixed values.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Six sets of backup\/restore settings plus a factory default set give you single button backup and restore capability for all of your meter settings. Each backup set can give the meter an entirely different personality.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Menus are interrupt driven. Once a menu is selected, meter configuration changes can be made on the fly using one of the four menu buttons without disrupting normal meter operation.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">All features are controllable directly from the front panel. No PC interface is required.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pre-loaded Calibration Table for the included MB-HF1 coupler<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tutorial-style manual &#8211; Extensive Background Information in addition to operating instructions.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Steel case with blind self-clinching fasteners on case front, and threaded inserts and machine screws for case assembly.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lots of other features you will find only in MB-1.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meterbuilder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">More details<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Features: A Fully Programmable Amateur Radio Power Meter. Many of these features are unique to MeterBuilder. Program MB-1 to interface with up to four remote couplers with Full Scale power ranges from 1 watt to 30,000 watts in steps of 1 watt. Includes a Linear Scale Crossneedle Analog Meter with Real Time response capable of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[304,346,390,466],"class_list":["post-28418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-equipment","tag-new-equipment-2","tag-power","tag-rf","tag-test-equipment","category-8","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}