Jerry,
Thanks for the information. I knew about Downeast but when I looked at
their catalog page, it looks like they have dropped the 6 M and
concentrate on 144 Mhz and up. I will check on the other two. The
British one with a 25 watt PA onboard comes out just barely more
expensive at 178 pounds than the Elecraft. G.... knows what the shipping
cost from the old country would be.
Regards,
John / WA1JG
Dr. Gerald N. Johnson wrote:
> In the US there's Down East Microwave Inc, now in Florida,
> www.downeastmicrowave.com who makes fine products, both kit an assembled.
>
> SSB Electronics in Pennsylvania www.ssbusa.com imports Swedish products.
> Then there's Kuhne Electronics (DB6NT) who makes transverters for 6m
> through at least 122 GHz in kit or assembled.
> http://www.kuhne-electronic.de/en/
>
> These companies also sell amplifiers and preamps and sequencers.
>
> The Tentec transverters were the lowest priced ever on the market.
> Elecraft is about the most expensive.
>
> The Tentec transverters (I have the version with 2m IF) uses a really
> hot receive transistor, but has so much loss in using an ordinary diode
> for switching that its NF is marginal for good 6m weak signal use. But
> it works. And there are some other things that have annoyed me,
> including the fact that the transmitter stage bias depends on the drive
> level but it it was hard keyed by the station controls it has enough
> less distortion its detectable on the air. Maybe I should work on mine
> and put it up for sale, but I don't have the time right now. It would
> work better with hard keying, instead of RF sensing, and with an
> external antenna relay.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 3/15/2010 8:47 AM, John Graves wrote:
>
>> As usual I waited too long and no longer are there transverter kits from
>> TenTec. It seems with any number of radios now including 6 meters that
>> transverters in general are in short supply. So what is a Jupiter owner
>> to do, if selling and replacement is not agreeable. I could only find
>> two kits after a short quest. Spectrum in England and Elecraft here.
>> Anyone have any thoughts regarding either one? Or any other for that
>> matter.
>>
>>
>>
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