New Heathkit Product Announced - Precision RF Meter

[xrunner]

Just received an email announcing this.

Precision RF Meter - HM-1002 - pre-order

$ 575.00

Apparently you can enter certain parameters of your system, and it can do extra calculations such as ERP. It works with two sensors though. It also measures your transmission to +/- 100 Hz. Not very good set of pics either. Check it out.

Link -

Heathkit HM-1002

[scdreger]

The product seems pretty nice, but the price is a little off putting. I wish they had some more affordable kits besides the clockradio (which is itself rather expensive for what it is).

[German_EE]

Here's a better option, and it's a hundred bucks cheaper.

http://www.telepostinc.com/lp100.html

NIST source calibrated as well.

[N2IXK]

I wish they had some more affordable kits besides the clockradio (which is itself rather expensive for what it is).

They offer a clock radio?  I saw a clock kit, and a radio kit, but not a clock radio kit.

Not sure where the new "Heathkit" is getting their product ideas from.  $575 for an SWR/Wattmeter is quite steep.

They could have come up with a modernized version of their venerable HM-102 (maybe with a cross-needle meter?) for considerably less than this, and they would surely sell a lot more of them.

[scdreger]

I wish they had some more affordable kits besides the clockradio (which is itself rather expensive for what it is).

They offer a clock radio?  I saw a clock kit, and a radio kit, but not a clock radio kit.

Not sure where the new "Heathkit" is getting their product ideas from.  $575 for an SWR/Wattmeter is quite steep.

They could have come up with a modernized version of their venerable HM-102 (maybe with a cross-needle meter?) for considerably less than this, and they would surely sell a lot more of them.

Not sure why I was calling it a clock radio.  Yes, I meant the "reliable clock kit," or whatever it's called.

[WastelandTek]

Seems like all the offerings in this Heath reboot have been...a little odd.  I'm just not sure who they think their market is.