On Jan 24, 6:21*pm, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:52:14 -0800, JIMMIE wrote:
I was wanting to listen to VHF/UHF SSB. All of my present UHF/VHF radios
are FM. I was thinking of rigging up a simple downconverter using a mini
circuit mixer and my HP signal generator as the local oscilator that I
can connect in front of my HF rig. I have an antenna mounted pre- amp
that I think should suffice for my front end. Any foreseeable problems
short of keying my transmitter while it is connected.

Jimmie

Do let us know what you tried, and how it worked.

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UPS delivered the mixer yesterday evening but I didnt get to play with
it until this AM.Im working evenings. I spent about an hour getting it
connected up. There may not have been any SSB activity but I was able
to hear all the usual local 2m repeaters using my HF rig set up for
10M FM.

Setup was as about as simple as it gets. With pre- amp at the antenna,
antenna , receiver and osc was just connected directly to the mixer
with some small coax alledged to be 50 ohms. At this thime I really
cant evaluate it more than that.

Jimmie