I bought three of these transverters used about 15 years ago from a ham who had built them, and mostly they sat on a shelf after I'd moved across the country. They were for the 50, 144, and 220 MHz bands. I sold the 50MHz unit once I had a K3 that covered that band, loaned the 220 MHz unit to a friend who does VHF rovering, and eventually got around to using the 2M unit myself. The few times I used the 220 MHz unit in Chicago and later the 144 MHz unit here in W6, I found them varying degrees of unstable. It didn't take much to figure out why. They were built with Pin One Problems -- all the I/O is via BNCs that are insulated from the shielding enclosure!

I have no idea what they're doing now, but I don't recommend those that I owned.

73, Jim K9YC

On 7/8/2020 5:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote:
I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did 
every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to 
do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them 
up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to 
get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if 
one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down 
the drain.

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