[VHFcontesting] Is FT8 Really the Problem with VHF Contests?

[Zack Widup]

W1GHZ has some excellent designs for transverters from 902 MHz to 10 GHz.
The articles are all on his website. And the pc boards he supplies for them
are all very inexpensive! The parts are also easy to obtain and not
expensive. I have built his designs for 902, 1296, 3400, 5760 and 10368
MHz. Probably the most expensive part I use is the DigiLO I use in some of
them for the LO source.

73, Zack W9SZ

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 4:45 PM Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc at josefsipek.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 13:25:04 -0500, Zack Widup wrote:
> > When you REALLY get hooked on it, you want more and more bands.
>
> I get the itch and I don't consider myself "REALLY hooked" :)
>
> ...
> > I have found that building transverters isn't all that expensive. It is,
> > however, time-consuming
>
> Earlier this year, I started tinkering with circuits with the intention of
> making *something* radio related.  Maybe the something should be a
> transverter...hmm.
>
> > and requires a certain minimum of test equipment, like an accurate
> > frequency counter and power meter.
>
> Which, unfortunately, makes this an unlikely path for new hams to take.
>
> 73,
>
> Jeff (AC1JR)
>