Dropped $400 on a fancy GPS signal tester last summer and it saved my butt on a King Air install in Denver

I was tracking down a weird intermittent glitch in the nav display and that little box caught a bad antenna cable that my multimeter missed completely. Has anyone else found a tool that seemed overpriced at first but ended up paying for itself fast?

3 comments

3 Comments

jake9861mo ago

$400 for a tool you use once sounds like a lot until it saves you from ripping out a whole install. But is a bad antenna cable really that hard to find without it?

leodavis1mo ago

Agreed, jake. That thing paid for itself before I even finished lunch that day.

sarah_patel251mo ago

Exactly what kind of install was it though? Because I'm sitting here with a bad antenna cable on a basic coax run and I can find the break with a cheap multimeter in like 5 minutes. If it's something like a satellite dish or those new digital antennas with the weird connectors, I can see it being worth every penny. But for standard TV antenna work, what's the real use case where this thing actually saves you time?