Moving along in the direction of the mostly-all-Elecraft rover station, I've completed the 50 and 144Mhz transverters and should wrap up the 222 this evening. As expected, the Elecraft transverters were enjoyable to build and worked the first time (once I corrected my jumper config screwups). I did find a small problem with my K60XV during testing .. the input coax center conductor had detached from the BNC connector.
Initial tests indicate performance at least as specified (and maybe a bit better). Going to do noise figure and sensitivity testing next week, but casual beacon listening and comparison to a DEMI/TS-850 looked very promising. The physical layout is very nice also .. K8ISK and I are working on building new side panels which will attach to each of the 4 XVs and tie them into a single unit, spaced convienently to allow BNC T and barrels to connect them together (might even extend them to the K2, which would make a monolithic 160M-70cm station with the footprint of the K2). Current plans are to drive the beast to Dayton for show+tell and shakedown prior to the June test .. if it doesn't end up in the flea market it'll be at the FDIM hotel. Contact me closer to the date for personal tours :) de w1rt/john _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
