[Elecraft] xv transverters

[Jim Brown]

I bought three of these transverters used about 15 years ago from a ham 
who had built them, and mostly they sat on a shelf after I'd moved 
across the country. They were for the 50, 144, and 220 MHz bands. I sold 
the 50MHz unit once I had a K3 that covered that band, loaned the 220 
MHz unit to a friend who does VHF rovering, and eventually got around to 
using the 2M unit myself. The few times I used the 220 MHz unit in 
Chicago and later the 144 MHz unit here in W6, I found them varying 
degrees of unstable. It didn't take much to figure out why. They were 
built with Pin One Problems -- all the I/O is via BNCs that are 
insulated from the shielding enclosure!

I have no idea what they're doing now, but I don't recommend those that 
I owned.

73, Jim K9YC

On 7/8/2020 5:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote:
> I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain.