[Laser] Information about a QEX article on Laser Transciever

[James French]

I was wondering if anyone has information about this article from the
November/December 2001 issue of QEX:
"A Laser Transceiver for the ARRL 10-GHz-and-Up Contest"

1) Wondering if anyone has built it and how it performed?
2) Looking at the parts and trying to find them, I have noticed some
   have become 'unobtainium" and what might be suggested as replace-
   ments?
3) Is it worth it to obtain the boards from Far Circuits and use?

I am thinking of this as an addition to the W8PGW VHF+ efforts during
contests.

James W8ISS

PS - used to be a list subscriber years ago. Just dropped out because
didn't have the time to keep up with everything that interested me at
the time. Hopefully I can devote some time to this project.