Hi Elecraft, and also a "high five" to David - met you on "HAM radio 2017" at QRP project!! Thanks for your time and the nice discussion.
Now my very special problem I try to post to the "masses" to explain how to improve transverter work at frequencies from 23cm up to 1.5cm with KX3. Hopefully other OMs might have similar problems or requests. In 2012 I ordered the KX3 - was not aware of its "nifty gifty" features - just would like to do shortwave and some, when available, 2m repeater work also. in 2013 I joined the VHF-contest station "DL0LN" here in germany an its a pleasure to work with all the SHF guys and equipment. All transverters in these days worked "on its own". You have to have change cables, use one IC 202, next band another IC 202 etc. This was a bit too much "overhead" for me. In december 2015 I could purchase a nice transverterbox, all included, it needs only 146 MHz drive and only one antenna. So I tried to use my good old KX3 for these bands @146 MHz. And: Its working! All bands are stable (after temperature compensating the LO, see application note). One Contestmember, Oliver, DJ2QZ and I, DL1MTG, tried to do an optimization and spend hours to find and configure the best settings working for SSB and CW operating. Well, one big finding was "doing CW in SSB mode" so called *C**W-IN-SSB*. The frequency is at SHF contest work extremly important - a small change in freq and the QSO is lost. Therefore it is a pleasure to call in SSB, station is answering in CW, very weak signal: *C**W-IN-SSB *is possible. And now the request: station did not get my call, I have to activate Voice-Keyer again! But stop, He can only read my CW signal - lets activate the CW-Keyer... ups, have to change mode from SSB to CW - to activate CW keyer: frequency lost!!! Station lost, no QSO!! To explain further: I also now the "SSB/CW VFO Offset" - but this is not helpful in "transverterbusiness". I'd like to get something like "working in SSB", hear an answer in CW, activate memory 3 or 4 which is only used in "*C**W-IN-SSB", *to send a CQ-Call from memory 3 or an "QRZ QRZ DL0LN DL0LN" from memory 4 etc. in SSB - CW-IN-SSB oc. Its a special case. Why is it necessary to mix up SSB and CW - this ist the only case I know at this time:-) Hopefully other stations have similar requests? Kind regards, Martin, DL1MTG / DL0LN ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
