Just before the May DUR competition i got my new 6cm Transverter working. Before I faced some problems with the multiplier chain.
\nMurphy made that saturday afternoon i burned the control circuitry of the SMA bistable relay – poff. So i had to exchange it with my own sequencer circuitry that needs some highside FET switch to do that job.
\nI used a dual-band ring feed i made for tests and connected it to a old 60cm dish. The result you can see on the photo below. Very beta version ;) The PA is still missing and therefore i had only about 250mW.<\/p>\n
I also wanted to take 3cm with me. In order to limit the amount of equipment i decided to minimize effort for 23cm. 13cm is out of order at the moment anyway. That means only using the former Wimax patch antenna for 9cm.<\/p>\n
The following result i can claim:
\n23cm 12QSO 772P
\n13cm —
\n9cm 4QSO 481P
\n6cm 2QSO 351P (x2)
\n3cm 4QSO 489P
\nSum 2444P<\/p>\n
Next steps for 6cm will be adding driver (ordered from China) and the PA (10W, already here) as well as creating some better feed suitable for the mesh dish.
\nMy goal is to operate 23\/13\/9\/6 with one mesh dish.<\/p>\n
This time i had a neighbour in JO61XA. DM4SWL was operating few meters away on 23cm FM only. Thanks for taking the foto !<\/p>\n
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<\/a>6cm rig<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>after May 2017 DUR test<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Just before the May DUR competition i got my new 6cm Transverter working. Before I faced some problems with the multiplier chain. Murphy made that saturday afternoon i burned the control circuitry of the SMA bistable relay – poff. So … Continue reading