The coolest Bird 43 digital Meter I have seen yet!!

On a side note this is the ONLY digital bird watt meter I have ever see!!

[@KitsuneAlex]

Great video as always! The features of the meter are impressive, and it looks really great too due to the blend of oldschool bird looks and modern-ish elements :D

[@Walker_328]

Take my money. I’m on the list. Thanks for the video and the info.

[@kevinunknown6457]

Come on man😉...your killing us with the suspense!

[@daytonpyro]

team this guy up with MR CARLSONS LAB.. golden

[@basicinfo.9315]

Excellent! Im ordering 1 so i can prove my kraco is doing exactly 7 watts.

[@timwilhelm3063]

Love the music,and that's one of the baddest meters I've ever seen.....

[@AloBlo-ll6ql]

Shout out to BBI, and all amplifier builders and Ham Radio fans. Maybe one day I will be able to build my own amplifier. Had a chance to work on exisiting 27.12Mhz and 6.78Mhz industrial amplifiers. Really interesting 😇

[@Tinman386wisconsin]

That's real cool and all but I'll stick with the LP100A. The main reason i chose it was so i don't have to deal with the added cost of buying and keeping slugs on hand. Reality is I'll probably never fool with a bird meter as long as the LP100A i have its in good working order.

[@Optimus2179]

Lp100a is the best for the money. Bird meters can be manipulated whereas the Telepost cannot. Well I guess if somebody is dumb enough to go into calibration settings anything is possible.

[@Tinman386wisconsin]

@Optimus2179 if a guy changes the length of the com cords the LP100A needs recalibration. But most of us know enough to leave them alone and use it the way it is.

[@KlausKaiserDB3TK]

When you said that v2 is delayed, first thing that came to my mind was the "Second-system effect" - look it up on Wikipedia. And if you are an engineer, or in any way involved in requirements engineering, read the book which coined that term.

[@JamesHalfHorse]

I really really hope he is able to survive the BBI effect. I will want a couple of them for sure if he keeps it around the 250-300 price I have seen floating around. I will need to buy line sections and 3d print cases as I don't have spares of those but otherwise yeah. And yeah typical broadcast engineer. We kinda obsess about things.

[@Original427]

I'm on the waiting list. I know a guy that has a v1.

[@hardhead7056]

Good thing the guy wasn't needing bbi advertising to pay his bills. "Ohh. Daing. I just sat on this unit for over a year"..

[@steamingcoax]

The timing couldn't have been better hahaha

[@Mr.Modulation.StatenIslandMic]

Now I see why you call yourself hardhead...foh

[@1Patient]

Ya, it looks 👀 cool 👍🏻

[@daytonpyro]

this is digital so why do you need to select different 'digital' slugs? cant it just read the watts?

[@KitsuneAlex]

As far as i'm aware, and don't quote me on this since RF is mostly black magic to me, the slugs complete the sense loop in the meter which is used to perform the actual meassurement. There's usually a diode, a cap and possibly some other passives in these slugs.

[@WagnerAngenendt123]

How do I get on the waiting list, what is the contact? Thank you.

[@georgewarthen3925]

Need one of these in my life. Does it read in reverse?

[@alexfaught8717]

I'm sure it would if you reverse the slug.

[@steamingcoax]

Not only does it do reverse, it can do returnloss if you flip the element around (you’ll find info on the mode in the DWM guide in section 10 to get an idea)

[@BoxBuilderIdaho]

yes

[@danataylor343]

It might be a extra bell and whistle but a HDMI out port screen emulator would be nine on the eyes on a external screen.

[@JL-hy7ve]

Can this work with DMR ?

[@steamingcoax]

Yes, plus the V2 will have a much faster sample rate than the V1 so it can pick up very narrow pulses in TX power.

[@Spiderbulit]

Does the new meter require a whole lot of slugs? Kind of a dumb question but they're kind of expensive

[@steamingcoax]

Nope! The DWM V1 and V2 can read up to 2x the slug’s rated power. Plus because you can calibrate for a specific element, that means you can take an element for a completely different frequency range, calibrate for it, and it will be dead on. Good question btw!

[@zeljkoadzic1692]

AWSOME!

[@johnlewis6928]

These have been out for a while

[@richarddaigle-dj1fi]

how do i get one

[@randyguay7115]

This an edit , i love this meter . That sd card thing . Would be nice if it recorded power levels , making ll things verifiable. Time will give us a nice finish product. And big thank you bbi. Keep doin whacha do. ❤

[@donaldtune6917]

Cool

[@alexfaught8717]

Array solutions made a drop in digital meter for the bird, years ago.

[@BoxBuilderIdaho]

@@alexfaught8717 yeah I'm aware of it I'm also aware that it's not available anymore the last time I looked. I think it had some issues I'm not too sure I haven't spent a lot of time looking at it so I can't say definitively

[@timcounts5399]

Will Read swr

[@steamingcoax]

Yes, it reads SWR and can do return loss

[@minibikemadman]

dave made said a new version of the og meter they had might be coming out. 300 bux ant bad either!

[@BoxBuilderIdaho]

@@minibikemadman lol

[@BoxBuilderIdaho]

@@minibikemadman dave made... Said. That's fine I'd like to see that meter come back to the market has nothing to do with this meter though

[@minibikemadman]

​@BoxBuilderIdaho ah I love all the old stuff that was hi tech back in the day. I might grab one of these and 3d print a case for it.

[@randyguay7115]

I like thee new digital meter , but the menu just blows it for me. Its to much crap to get a simple watt reading. I mostly like the new battery . Stickin to analog for now. Maybe around version 5 or 6 this will become a fully automated list of functions. And its time for a new housing . I would love to see one of your custom builds with 3 or 4 of those in a diamond plate housing.