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

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

My concern was being able to see the display in bright sun light. No problem and having the analog meter is a great help. Highly recommend.

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

Exactly what I needed!

Highly responsive, option to use rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries, neat graphing function, rock-solid build (all metal), and nice simple controls. My only gripe is the frequency knob is a little too sensitive for my taste, a little hard to get exactly on the frequency I want, and if I bump it itll move a few kilohertz. Nicely manufactured and use it all the time with SATCOM systems.

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

Works great for designing and building your own antennas. Tells you what youre doing right and what youre doing wrong, in real time. It can pay for itself many times over if you use it to build and tune antennas to sell. The only con is that it doesnt come with a nice protective case.

This new antenna analyzer by Comet is great. It is very solidly constructed. I love the combination of analog needles and the digital lcd display. The ham radio presets are perfect. I recently installed several new ham radio antennas and used this meter to adjust and test each one before connecting to my radios. The band sweep function is great as you put the indicator on the ham band you will be testing. Then press the band sweep button and a swr curve is displayed on the lcd screen across the entire frequency range being tested. This unit will also graph and overlap up to 5 readings, perfect for making antenna adjustments and seeing how the changes have affected the swr. I highly recommend purchasing the optional soft case as this is a very high precision testing instrument that you will want to protect. It also runs on either 6 alkaline or rechargeable AA batteries and includes a built in battery charger. An optional ac-dc adapter is required and can be used to power the unit or recharge the batteries. The one thing to keep in mind with this analyzer is that it does not compensate for coax cable connected to the antenna. You will need to use a very short piece of coax cable while testing but this is not a great problem. As a ham radio operator, I highly recommend this antenna analyzer for any shack since it is both a precision and cost effective solution for testing and tuning your antennas!