>Tor - Glad you enjoyed the post and thanks for the comments. As a bare board,
>these are even better values.
>
>1. Yes, both of our units were 13kHz off. Those little can oscillators seem to
>be consistent if not accurate :^)=. From talking to >others with the same
>unit, they all seem to be off 13kHz. We don’t see that as a big problem
>though, it is easy to subtract in one’s >head, and many IF rigs can be
>adjusted to take into account the offset.
>2. FB on the 1mW drive. Did you adjust the drive pot on the transverter board
>at all? If so, any comments on that would be welcome. >Yes, I think that if
>you are in a 222MHz wasteland, getting on the air is the important thing and
>at 7W to 8W even with mediocre IMD >performance you won’t bother many.
I have the drive pot all the way up
>3. Can you measure your final gate bias and send me the value if you feel
>comfortable doing this? The paper has the board location >to do this.
Sure- I'll check it tonight and let you know.
Tor
N4OGW
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