Comet Original CAA-500 Mark II Standing Wave Analyzer 1.8-500MHz SWR & Impedance Simultaneously

Excellent!

The ohm meter needle gets stuck at 40 ohms Only used twice and has never been dropped Can still see the ohm age on the digital display. Sent in for warrantee and the mfg. said it was dropped. Too fragile to use I would not recommend

My meter arrived in perfect shape. It is a pleasure to use in info provided on the LCD. The case is made of very high quality metal. Easy to use and read. Made in Japan.

Ive likely tuned hundreds of antennas SWR over my year using the old method of checking each end of a band and adjusting a bit to center the dip. I looked long and hard at the cheap $30 and $40 meters and Ive had so much bad luck with them I thought about getting something better ... and ended up getting WAY BETTER! The meter is so simple to use. You select the correct output 2M and above or 2M and below and connect the antenna up to the meter. Twist one knob to select the band and the other to pick the frequency inside that band and the cross needles indicate the SWR and the impedance of the antenna. Press a button and the meter will sweep the band displaying the slope on the small color screen. With HF bands this is very handy to see just what the SWR is across a wide number of frequencies. Tuning dual and tri-band VHF/UHF antennas on my Jeep was simple. The only thing missing is a USB port to off load screen captures of the SWR plots.

I feel like somebody now! This is one awesome piece of equipment. It makes my well worn MFJ look like a crude piece of junk! Plus it will do uhf that I couldn’t do with the MFJ. Making and experimenting with home made antennas is really fun and now even more so.

Well built, easy to read screen and meters.

It works fine below 300 mhz. The UHF side does give an accurate SWR reading. But the OHMS are always off. I fought with an antenna for over an hour, only to find out it was the meter itself. We hooked it up to a 50 OHM dummy load. It tested out at 1:1 SWR at 50 OHMS on two GOOD analyzers. The Comet read just below 25 OHMS across the entire 70 cm ham radio band. Apparently Comet doesnt have quality control!

Its great for testing to see if that old length of coax is still good, and it makes tuning antennas easy.

ive several of the cheapees, this beats them all. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.

Well worth the money. It came damaged in shipping and return and replacement was easy/Peazy. Thanks Amazon