[NLRS] What's the problem with UHF (& microwave) contesting?

[Zack Widup]

I looked at the schematics for these transverters, and they are far from
state of the art. You've confirmed my suspicions.

My homebrew transverters are very clean, but I use a lot of filtering.

73, Zack W9SZ


On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Glen Overby <gpoverby at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Mary Brown <maryalanab at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Cheap way to get on 144, 222, 432 for those who only have an HF rig
> > http://transverters-store.com/ 144 & 222 are $75 432 is $95, sure you
> need
> > an amplifier stage after these if you want more than qrp but it will get
> > you
> > on the higher bands... they are around 3 watts out. They sell an
> attenuator
> > board also. Add some switching from attenuator to the transverters and
> you
> > have 3 bands in a box. If enough people ask they may add 902 and 1296!
> >
>
> I have two of these transverters: 50mhz and 144mhz.  I put the 2m
> transverter on my spectrum analyzer and looked at the output; at full
> power, it is HORRIBLE!  Spurs were close in enough that there was no way I
> was going to filter them.  They were better at low power levels, but I
> don't know how much of that would return if it was run into an amplifier.
> I didn't try it.  They now sit in a junk pile.
>
> Glen, kc0iyt
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