[Elecraft] On VHF & UHF radios

[Bob McGraw - K4TAX]

I don't view there are many serious VHF and UHF operators today, i.e. 
sufficient to warrant a high performance radio.  Most are repeater 
users.  Seems that a $39 radio model has been proven to be satisfactory 
to most.

The SAT users do require some unique applications to cross band, split 
frequency and address Doppler shift.  The Tropo users need big antennas 
and lots of power and the EME group even more so.  Oh yes, the digital 
modes make things less complex but still, big antennas, good receivers 
and clean transmitters is still mandatory.

I don't find the current breed of "do it all" radios to have outstanding 
performance on VHF and UHF.

73
Bob, K4TAX
K3S s/n 10,163

On 9/16/2015 6:35 AM, ae4pb at carolinaheli.com wrote:
> I still believe it may be possible with the K3S, KRX3 and transceivers to do Full cross band duplex. I'll look more closely after my rig is built and on the air. Makes for an expensive stand alone UHF/VHF rig tho unless you want HF too. But then it's probably overkill just to work SATs. I'll bet with the correct transverter we could hear the mars rovers tho.
>
> Jerry Moore
> AE4PB, K3S SN# ARRIVES TODAY!!!!!!!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy McMullin [mailto:Andy at rickham.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 7:22 AM
> To: Jerry Moore
> Cc: Jim Lowman; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft SP3 External Speaker details
>
> I’d be interested in that spec too!
>
> Built-in soundcard for digital modes (with one USB connection for it and rig control) would be nice as well.
>
> Regards
> Andy, G8TQH
>
>
>> On 16 Sep 2015, at 12:06, Jerry Moore <jermo at carolinaheli.com> wrote:
>>
>> If they did a stand alone UHF/VHF I'd suggest it have dual receivers,
>> cross band tx/rx capability and VFO tracking based on Doppler built in
>> for SAT work.
>>
>>> [deletia]
>>>
>>> My one request to Eric, last year at his presentation at Pacificon,
>>> was for a standalone, all-mode transceiver for 2m and above.
>>> My rationale was that, since Elecraft sells transverters for 2m, 220
>>> MHz and
>>> 432 MHz, they already have the technology to make this possible.
>>> It came down to the fact that there may not be a large enough market
>>> for such a transceiver.  Makes sense.
>>>
>>> 73 de Jim - AD6CW
>>>
>
>
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