[VHFcontesting] Trends

[John Geiger]

Downeast microwave makes plug and play transverters, I think Elecrafts are 
also.  Ten Tec used to make them for 6m and 2m.

73 John AF5CC

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Laws" <plaws at plaws.net>
To: "vhf contesting" <VHFcontesting at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [VHFcontesting] Trends


> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 2:05 PM, Gregg Seidl <k9kl at centurytel.net> wrote:
>> I think we may be missing the key ingredient to lack of activity on some 
>> of the VHF and UHF bands. I read a comment from one respondent that " I 
>> built all my xverters" . That is great and if someone enjoys that that's 
>> even better. Most hams have to work 40-50 hours a week and then there are 
>> the kids activities and the honey-do list and, well I think we get the 
>> point. I just think most hams don't have the time to do that stuff,if 
>> they can't plug it in and get it to work on a weekend they just won't do 
>> it. Most hams I know of have several hobbies and radio is just one of 
>> them. I know I have a bunch of things I enjoy s
>
>
>> I don't mean to sound doom and gloom but all hobbies ebb and flow with 
>> active participants.Our local astronomy club rode the technology high 
>> when computer aided scopes made it "easy" to find all kinds of objects 
>> but now the newness has worn off and some of those astronomers have 
>> drifted away, some have stayed too. Same for our homebrew club.
>
>
> You have it exactly right in both cases.  I, for one, would love to
> have transverters for a band or three but unless the control cable
> plugs into the the ACC or DATA jacks on the back of my IC746Pro it's
> probably not going to happen.
>
> As you correctly note, however, plug-n-play transverters would cause
> an influx of new > 50 MHz activity ... for a while.  Hobbies ebb and
> flow.
>
>
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