On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:19:03AM -0500, Zack Widup wrote:
> I'm about halfway through converting an HTX-100 as an IF rig for the
> microwave bands. I removed the back panel with the heatsink and the final
> transistors and made an aluminum back panel that has two BNC connectors
> and a few power leads for transverter switching. I'm putting a 144
> MHz transverter inside the rig so the separate 144 MHz receive and
> transmit lines will be on the BNC's. There's an article by Rus Healy NJ2L
> on doing this that can be downloaded from the DEM website. Since I'm
> building my own transverter, I can make it have adjustable gain, etc. It
> should draw a lot less power than the straight HTX-100 with 5 watts into a
> transverter IF switch that has to just throw away that unneeded power.
> And it's small and lightweight if I want to carry it up a hill.
I've also done an NJ2L (he's now K2UA, btw) mod to a Realistic HTX-100
ten meter monoband rig. That radio is now at N5XU, the club station of
the University of Texas Amateur Radio Club, and is hooked up to a DEMI
222 MHz transverter. Even though the HTX-100 is a very mediocre ten meter
rig, at best, that combination performs as well or better than the
Yaesu FT-726R does on 144 MHz into a very similar antenna at an almost
identical height. If the DEMI transverter was attached to a Kenwood TS-850,
it would be a superb combination.
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University of Texas at Austin Amateur Radio Callsign: WM5R
Department of the Computer Sciences Central Texas DX & Contest Club
Taylor Hall TAY 2.124 Maintainer of Linux on Laptops
Austin, TX 78712-1188 USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/
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