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Hi Eddie.

As you know I as well as others have criticised your s meter readings on ssb as well as your two pole approach.

I know you can't do anything about the two poles. But here's a suggestion might at least give you steady readings. Its a little tone generator that you can set for sinewave between 400hz and a few khz. All you have to do is set it to 1khz tone and hold phone to microphone. It will give you a steady carrier. http://onlinetonegenerator.com/

I've even used it checking ssb alignment with my ext inline counter to see if it was worth opening a radio to align it. Set it for 1000hz play it through 27.555 usb counter reads 556. However many more digits your counter has. Radio I checked was 556.03. My counter is only 7 digit but wasn't worth opening the radio and cracking a slug for 30hz.

Its not lab technology but it also has the option for a two tone output in the menu. Ideal for a quick ssb power check. A lot easier than constant whistling.

I find it handy and if you want steady incoming signals will do the job. Nowhere near ideal measuring conditions I admit but I think would be slightly more accurate for your style of test.

A lot easier than trying to take average readings between voice peaks Jazz 73

<blockquote data-quote="jazzsinger" data-source="post: 506247" data-attributes="member: 7426">Hi Eddie. As you know I as well as others have criticised your s meter readings on ssb as well as your two pole approach.I know you can&#039;t do anything about the two poles. But here&#039;s a suggestion might at least give you steady readings. Its a little tone generator that you can set for sinewave between 400hz and a few khz. All you have to do is set it to 1khz tone and hold phone to microphone. It will give you a steady carrier. <a href="http://onlinetonegenerator.com/" target="_blank">http://onlinetonegenerator.com/</a>I&#039;ve even used it checking ssb alignment with my ext inline counter to see if it was worth opening a radio to align it. Set it for 1000hz play it through 27.555 usb counter reads 556. However many more digits your counter has. Radio I checked was 556.03. My counter is only 7 digit but wasn&#039;t worth opening the radio and cracking a slug for 30hz.Its not lab technology but it also has the option for a two tone output in the menu. Ideal for a quick ssb power check. A lot easier than constant whistling.I find it handy and if you want steady incoming signals will do the job. Nowhere near ideal measuring conditions I admit but I think would be slightly more accurate for your style of test. A lot easier than trying to take average readings between voice peaks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Jazz 73</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jazzsinger, post: 506247, member: 7426"] Hi Eddie. As you know I as well as others have criticised your s meter readings on ssb as well as your two pole approach. I know you can't do anything about the two poles. But here's a suggestion might at least give you steady readings. Its a little tone generator that you can set for sinewave between 400hz and a few khz. All you have to do is set it to 1khz tone and hold phone to microphone. It will give you a steady carrier. [url]http://onlinetonegenerator.com/[/url] I've even used it checking ssb alignment with my ext inline counter to see if it was worth opening a radio to align it. Set it for 1000hz play it through 27.555 usb counter reads 556. However many more digits your counter has. Radio I checked was 556.03. My counter is only 7 digit but wasn't worth opening the radio and cracking a slug for 30hz. Its not lab technology but it also has the option for a two tone output in the menu. Ideal for a quick ssb power check. A lot easier than constant whistling. I find it handy and if you want steady incoming signals will do the job. Nowhere near ideal measuring conditions I admit but I think would be slightly more accurate for your style of test. A lot easier than trying to take average readings between voice peaks ;) Jazz 73 [/QUOTE]

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