[Elecraft] XV 144 trasnverter for sale

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

And the front end FET blew quite easily on one of the transverters. I
think the FETs themselves are no longer available.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023, Jim Brown wrote:

> On 10/26/2023 10:20 AM, Clay Autery wrote:
>>  1) It ain't Elecraft.
>
> That could be a plus -- that 20 year old series of transverters had serious 
> stability problems, thanks at least in part to seriously flawed construction. 
> RF I/O was on BNCs that were isolated from the chassis! I bought a set of 
> three used around that time, still have the 2M unit. I sold the 6M unit after 
> the band started showing up on HF rigs, donated the 220 MHz unit to the N6RO 
> contest station.
>
> Their positive features are 1) RX had a pretty good front end; and 2) great 
> flexibility with respect to RF drive on TX. I think I'd heard that frequency 
> stability wasn't great, but don't take that for certain.
>
>>  2) The XV-144 is out of production as you well know.
>>
>>  $600.00 is well within the realm of reasonable for the right buyer.
>
> Not in light of the above.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
>
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