>We were thinking along the lines of 200-500 mW for the "micro >transverter", if it's even possible. The regular transverter option >could be as high as 5 W. We'll see.
Wayne N6KR Now that sounds interesting. I run a bunch of microwave transverters from a 2m IF at 50-100 mW and have found no simple replacement for my old FT-290R IF radio (other than a second FT-290R), used at the low power setting. They are nearing 30 years of age and aren't going to last forever. I don't like the use of a higher power radio turned down due to the danger of inadvertantly transmitting into the transverter at higher power, or of high power transients. Plus the FT-290R draws very little current on receive (~75 mA, no signal, no dial light) which is useful in portable operations. I currently use them on 1296 MHz (ancient Microwave Modules transverter), 2.3/3.4/5.7/24 GHz (homebrew transverters) and 10 GHz (Kuhne/DB6NT MKU10G2 transverter), with the transverters switched by the +6.8V (through a resistor) that the FT-290R puts on the antenna connector in transmit. Elecraft might consider making available a DC control voltage like this available on such a low power transverter (with the equivalent of the K2's 8R HOLD mode to avoid relay chatter in the transverter). It wuld be nice to have a newer option ! 73, Steve VE3SMA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
