[NLRS] Downeast "Club" Buy!!!

[goverby@charter.net]

This DEM order has inticed me to investigate some new bands. I have some
questions about the DEM transverters.

1. Has anybody local built any of the DEM transverters from a kit?

  1a. How many surface-mounted components are on these boards?  No, I haven't
soldered any surface mount boards yet.

  1b. Before I go with a kit, I'd like to know what "tweeking and tuning" is
required to get the kit from components soldered to a board to a working
transverter?

My test equipment currently includes a 35mhz oscilliscope, and 2m/1.5m/70cm
SWR meter.  I doubt that is adequate for tuning or troubleshooting what I'm
looking at.  What is required, and does anybody locally have that sort of
equipment?

2. What about the TIB kit?  This looks like an easy kit to build and I don't
expect it to require any after-building tuning.

3. I can't recall seeing commercial SWR meters for the higher bands (902, 1.2G
etc).  Where do you get them from, or how do you build them?

4. What frequency range do these transverters cover?  That is, 1296 - 144
obviously covers more than just that one frequency, but their literature
doesn't indicate what the range actually is.

5. So, what do AOS and and TIB stand for?

Thanks,
Glen Overby, KC0IYT