The XV144 does not have any means of warping the local oscillator on
frequency. Mine is about 4 KHz high. I asked them about this, and they
told me that it is really easy to program the offset into your K2. I
guess, you are supposed to buy one of those too... I do run the XV50
with my Omni V.9. I tried the 0DBm ports on the transceiver, but the
transverter tends to oscillate at that drive level, which wiped out a
set of final transistors in the Mirage brick, so I am using it with the
transmit and receive ports on the transverter separated, and using the
separate TX & RX ports on the Omni. My XV144 has similar RF output
instability problems, but with some assistance from Elecraft tech
support, I have stabilized them enough to be usable. My Omni also has
the QRP power control mod, so I drive the transverter with a few watts
of output. This seems to work pretty well, but I am waiting for the
revised Down East Microwave transverters to ship, and I will order one
of their 6 meter models then. I have run both of the Elecraft
transverters reasonably well with my Argonaut II which has been modified
so that I can hard key them off of the otherwise not used linear
amplifier keying option. On 2 meters, I now use a Kenwood TS790A which
is on frequency, and also gives me 432 MHz capabilities.
Ed Purvis wrote:
Has anyone paired up the Paragon II and Elecraft's XV-144 transverter?
Info on any other combination would be appreciated also.
thanks,
Ed
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