[Elecraft] Re: 10Tranverter performance af K2 in IARU VHF/SHF Contest

[Tim O'Rourke]

I have had similar results using DB6NT 432 xverter!
Tim O'Rourke W4YN

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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Tim O'Rourke 
W4YN at ARRL.Net