xv transverters
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I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain.
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Joe,
Instead of daisy-chaining all the transverters, try connecting only one at a time (you should be able to use the daisy-chain control cable, but connect the TX and RX coax directly fron the K2/K3/K3S to the transverter. Then tell us what the particular problems are with each transveter. We cannot give much advice on "It just does not work right". 73, Don W3FPR On 7/8/2020 8:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote: > I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I built three of them (144, 222, 432) and have used them with my K3 in my
contest rover for several years. They are solid performers, and they work seamlessly with the K3. Since they can be used with many kinds of radios in many configurations, there are a number of jumpers and connections you must set correctly to make them work in your specific setup. What radio are you using for the IF? Don’s advice is spot on (as always) - best to set up one at a time and remove some variables. 73 de W0ZF On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 8:34 PM Don Wilhelm <[hidden email]> wrote: > Joe, > > Instead of daisy-chaining all the transverters, try connecting only one > at a time (you should be able to use the daisy-chain control cable, but > connect the TX and RX coax directly fron the K2/K3/K3S to the transverter. > > Then tell us what the particular problems are with each transveter. We > cannot give much advice on "It just does not work right". > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > > On 7/8/2020 8:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote: > > I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I > believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying > to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came > on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying > shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But > they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. > Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain. > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I bought three of these transverters used about 15 years ago from a ham
who had built them, and mostly they sat on a shelf after I'd moved across the country. They were for the 50, 144, and 220 MHz bands. I sold the 50MHz unit once I had a K3 that covered that band, loaned the 220 MHz unit to a friend who does VHF rovering, and eventually got around to using the 2M unit myself. The few times I used the 220 MHz unit in Chicago and later the 144 MHz unit here in W6, I found them varying degrees of unstable. It didn't take much to figure out why. They were built with Pin One Problems -- all the I/O is via BNCs that are insulated from the shielding enclosure! I have no idea what they're doing now, but I don't recommend those that I owned. 73, Jim K9YC On 7/8/2020 5:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote: > I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Yeah I think I would just like to get them to work as they should or were designed to. I think I would then sell them as i do have a k3 for 50 and an IC910 H for 144.
Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36> ________________________________ From: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> on behalf of Jim Brown <[hidden email]> Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 1:17:12 AM To: [hidden email] <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] xv transverters I bought three of these transverters used about 15 years ago from a ham who had built them, and mostly they sat on a shelf after I'd moved across the country. They were for the 50, 144, and 220 MHz bands. I sold the 50MHz unit once I had a K3 that covered that band, loaned the 220 MHz unit to a friend who does VHF rovering, and eventually got around to using the 2M unit myself. The few times I used the 220 MHz unit in Chicago and later the 144 MHz unit here in W6, I found them varying degrees of unstable. It didn't take much to figure out why. They were built with Pin One Problems -- all the I/O is via BNCs that are insulated from the shielding enclosure! I have no idea what they're doing now, but I don't recommend those that I owned. 73, Jim K9YC On 7/8/2020 5:10 PM, Joseph McIntire wrote: > I have two I need some help with neither one works or ever did. I believe I did every thing correct and believed something happened in trying to set them up to do the alignment procedures. But the power indicator came on till I hooked them up to do the alignment. I really cant see paying shipping and $125 an hour to get something fixed that cost $369.00 new. But they must be pretty fickle if one miss step in the setup takes them out. Just hate to see $700. 00 go down the drain. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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