[TenTec] Transverter 1208

[Bill Miner]

I build one of these for sight impaired  ham a while back.

As I  recall the MDS (minimum discernable signal) was pretty good.  At least 
it was better than my Ten Tec  6N2  rig.   However there is an input 
attenuator that is always in the circuit so it affects both transmit and 
receive paths through the transverter.  When using the 1208 the front end 
noise figure is set by the transverter and not the noise figure of  your HF 
transceiver.  There is plenty of conversion gain.  You may even find it 
necessary to turn on the input attenuator of your HF rig if it has one.

The 1208 will "support" any feature that is in your driver/transceiver so if 
you have split VFO capability now it will continue to work just fine.

73,
Bill - K6WLM
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Thompson" <thompson at mindspring.com>
To: "Discussion of Tentec equipment" <tentec at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 3:29 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Transverter 1208


> How good is this converter?   Especially need to know weak signal 
> capability
> beyond my transceiver.
> Will it support split VFO?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Dave K4JRB
>
>
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