[Elecraft] Tranverter performance af K2 in IARU VHF/SHF Contest

[Irelands Satellite]

I wonder how the DB6 unit compares with the XV144 in terms of performance?

Thanks
Tony Ei7BMB


At 09:18 06/03/2005, Norbert Roedel wrote:

>My qth is very exposed on a hilltop in Bavaria ­ in the last years I’ve had
>big problems with “big guns” next to me. All of them are driving the in
>Germany legal power of 750 Watts on 144MHz and all of them (4 Stations) are
>in in maximum distance of 10 miles. In the past I was not able to work weak
>stations ­ this year I used the K2 as exciter and a high performance
>transverter TR144H from DB6NT ( www.db6nt.de ) . The result was
>unbelievable: round about 20kHz away from the stations I was able to work
>weakest stations and also the other stations where not disturbed by my
>signal ­ also 750watts hf. The high performance of Michael, DB6NT’s,
>transverter has a noise figure of 0.4 ­ so no special preamp was needed. The
>blocking behavior of K2 did the other part of the contest. I’m very very
>satisfied by my rig now! I installed the transverter option few days ago and
>the transverter worked great with no additional mods. Absolute outstanding
>performance!
>
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