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On 4/9/2011 9:37 AM, Dale Parfitt wrote: > That is an extremely small market. There is a reason the rigs you > mentioned are no longer around. Serious ops go the transverter route. > > Dale W4OP Satellite users don't and I'm sure if some of the "serious" microwave ops had a choice of using 2m or 70cm in a K3V/U as an IF rather than 10m or daisy chained tranverters, they'd jump in a heartbeat. I also think there's a certain amount of transverter snobbery with the "serious" ops. "Those V/UHF rigs can't be nearly as good as my $1400 German transverter". Back 20 years ago that may have been true. A K3V/U might win that argument today. - -- R. Kevin Stover ACØH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJNoHtsAAoJEAu8BkU0m9Mn4DQIAK8sT9olqv5K48XSajTuhLCm Ww/PmLCuSgviQx5kckvhT+J80N+WMekS991CkRYcIIgyLz9EzrteP2Dp8MRhgAHX fGT7/2GQkabe7XezFHwl7Iy1EdnkXLxkx52GoNOwlLIWRihb0Dh5y72bGTg7Yeax oQ6NFbcjKHv7dCJZq6iv/gBpMm6FYS+ZG/kv1skFWWhZgR/da89hDZqwsHCnGMIX HPpuLjy6+eROJilvDBLnsamstTKT6LKBnueRa1kj+SMbV4IgJxnkMmLtipGblNM7 ETseDxXd+djeZB9FYJ8e58ZryT2XcR1g/CHTvnwXwZuvJ8IteQzYB262Yy3Sf/w= =NQr6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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