[Elecraft] Potential Elecraft Kit

[Sander Wissing]

I would second the Antenna Analyzer.  I have an MFJ unit, but it really
can't be difficult to design a better unit.  My requirements are as follows:

-	I don't care for portability (Although the Elecraft one would likely
be small and portable anyway)
-	The ability to calibrate out a certain piece of feedline.
-	PC control, reporting
-	Frequency sweeps, with graphing (on PC), sweep PC controlled
-	Did I mention PC control?
-	Preferably standard RS232 comms, to facilitate developing new
software.
-	Freq range up to 145 MHz (2m) at leas, pref to 500MHz.
-	OH, and PC control

Cheers!

73 de ZR6SW


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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Julian, G4ILO
Sent: 13 April 2005 13:28
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Potential Elecraft Kit

If Elecraft is going to get into making kits for more sophisticated test 
equipment, I'd like to see an antenna analyzer. The MFJ ones are 
ridiculously overpriced over here, and it's not practical to bypass 
rip-off UK dealers and buy direct because MFJ levy a deliberately 
inflated international shipping charge. Besides, I'm sure an Elecraft 
product would be higher quality.

73,
-- 
Julian, G4ILO
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Stewart Baker <stewart at baker.nildram.co.uk> wrote:

I built one of these simple spectrum analysers, and it works well within 
it's
design spec, however I find that I don't use it. This is because of the Wide
Resolution Bandwidth, it is OK for harmonics and widely spaced spurious, 
but for
in-close (<50kHz) measurements it does not cope.

With DDS and support chips now available at reasonable prices it should be
possible to produce a performance spectrum analyser (including good IF
filtering) at a modest cost. How about it Elecraft ?

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