[NLRS] W1GHZ transverters, group buy for parts?

[James French]

I forgot to mention that I was part of that group purchase and the final
price came to be $77.96 for the 1.2GHz transverter and a few extra
parts.

James W8ISS
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On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:37 -0400, James French wrote:
> 
> 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
> =====
> 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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