[NLRS] W1GHZ transverters, group buy for parts?

[James French]

There was a group buy a few months ago by a Arkansas microwave group:
http://4smicrowave.ae5k.us

The website has plenty of information about the different boards that
W1GHZ has made and hints about assembling them.

They also have a email list that is active on what is going on with
their group purchase:
4-State Microwave Discussion List
List Info: http://lists.ae5k.us/listinfo.cgi/4smicrowave-ae5k.us
Archives: http://lists.ae5k.us/pipermail/4smicrowave-ae5k.us/

I am currently putting together the W1GHZ 900MHz boards that I acquired
at Microwave Update last year in the Twin cities.

There currently are no plans to have another group purchase of parts and
boards. Maybe NLRS or another group would like to take the challenge of
another group buy?

James W8ISS
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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 15:17 -0500, David Palm wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm very new to the NLRS e-mail list, so perhaps I should first
> introduce myself.  I'm back into the ham radio hobby after a long
> hiatus, especially having a great time doing ham radio stuff with my
> son Christopher, KC9JTL.  You can see a bit about me here
> (http://w9hq.blogspot.com/2008/12/welcome-to-standing-waves.html) and
> about our first VHF contest here
> (http://w9hq.blogspot.com/2009/01/kc9jtl-in-2009-vhf-sweepstakes.html).
>  We had an absolute blast in the ARRL VHF Sweepstakes contest a couple
> of weeks ago and I'll be writing up our adventures for the blog soon.
> 
> Never thought I'd be into VHF-UHF, let alone SHF stuff.  But I think
> the bug is biting or, perhaps more accurately, has bitten.
> 
> Now, to the meat of this message, I looked back seven or eight months
> or so in the NLRS archives to see if there had been any talk about a
> possible group buy to build W1GHZ transverters.  Didn't come up with
> anything, so I'm wondering if there's been any talk about that amongst
> yourselves perhaps at club meetings.
> 
> I'm also wondering if anybody has any comments/insights on the W1GHZ
> transverter design in general.  I'm intriqued by it.  I'm a guy who
> always has too many projects going at once, but if this design seems
> solid and there was ever a group buy, well, I guess I'd pretty much
> have to get in on that action.
> 
> 73,
> 
> David  W9HQ
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