[Elecraft] Re: Transverters

[Don Brown]

Hi

According to Elecraft this is NOT a good way to connect the transverters. The isolation in the KAT2 is not good enough and you will most likely be transmitting a small amount of 10 meter RF into your HF antenna system when using the transverter unless you disconnect the HF antenna. I tried this hook up at first and abandoned it after the information came out from Elecraft to not use it. The low level IF I/O on the KX60M is a much better way to connect the transverters.

Don Brown

KD5NDB 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Martin<mailto:dl1iaq at gdxf.de> 
  To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net<mailto:elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:47 AM
  Subject: [Elecraft] Re: Transverters


  If you have the internal antenna tuner installed in your K2, here is a
  different approach to hook up a transverter:

  Use ANT 2 for the Transverters IN/OUT and set the maximum power to the
  required level in the menu.

  If your transverter has split connections for Input/Output, you need
  the 160m/RX-Ant option.

  In this case, use ANT 2 to drive the transverter and RX-Ant for the
  RX-path of your transverter.
  This setup worked here for 2 years now with a 50 Mhz Ten-Tec
  Transverter and 2 SSB-Electronic-Transverters for 2m & 70cm .


  -- 
  Best regards,
   Martin

  K2 #2706                            mailto:dl1iaq at gdxf.de<mailto:dl1iaq at gdxf.de>


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