[TenTec] all bands 1 box

[Frank Ayers]

>--- Original Message ---
>From: N4ZN - <n4zn at email.ro>
>I've never been able to justify the transverter approach here,
as opposed to 
>another rig. When comparing the price of, say, a 746 against
the cost of a 
>transverter and a VHF amp to get me up to 100 watts... I'de
have to say it 
>seems to me that the 746 would be the way to go... and I'm not
tying up my 
>normal HF rig to now do VHF work thru a transverter.
>
The difference between signal strengths on six and up can be
amazing. During some contests or openings on six meters, I can
have 6 different stations running 1500 watts out to 12 db gain
antennas line of sight to me. And, I'm 20 kHz away trying to
work somebody who is S2.
I use an Omni V and DEM transverters for VHF/UHF. The transverters
don't overload and yet have a good noise figure while the Omni
doesn't overload either and yet has low phase noise and great
selectivity. 
>From what I've seen, for casual use an allband VHF rig might
be okay but for best performance, transverters are the way to
go.

Frank
W2FCA