{"id":3438,"date":"2013-03-22T19:52:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2013-03-22T19:52:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T00:52:38","slug":"old-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"Old meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Limerock 4 miles]<\/p>\n<p>I have a box of old meters that I have picked up over the years.\u00a0 I may have bought a few at hamfests, but I think most are from old equipment that I&#8217;ve taken apart.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a meter which has a sensitive movement (very small readings)\u00a0 it is possible to use a &#8216;shunt&#8217; and employ\u00a0 the meter in a situation that requires larger readings.\u00a0 The only problem then is to find a way to adjust the scale of the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Meters have a lot of artistic design touches:\u00a0\u00a0 the font, the pointer style and the body trim.<\/p>\n<p>This one has a plain pointer and a fancy font.\u00a0 Across the top it says &#8220;Marion Electrical Instrument company&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/?attachment_id=3439\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3439\" alt=\"GE DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/GEDC0012-700x467.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/GEDC0012-700x467.jpg 700w, http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/GEDC0012-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Today&#8217;s run: Limerock 4 miles] I have a box of old meters that I have picked up over the years.\u00a0 I may have bought a few at hamfests, but I think most are from old equipment that I&#8217;ve taken apart. If you get a meter which has a sensitive movement (very small readings)\u00a0 it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3441,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}