"Michael Black" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:


"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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Yes, transverters can be a bit of fiddle. In the 70s, I made one to go
with my 80 to 10m gear (on 14MHz), to get on 160m. It worked OK, but it
was all a bit of a fiddle if I wanted to swap back and forth.


I built a europa into an FT101 speaker cabinet ....I had to cut a bit
off
each end of the circuit board.... build a chassis..... cut a front panel
for the europa meter.....stuck in a coax relay instead of the crappy bog
standard one...... painted the front panel morris oxford
green.....stuck
an ft101 fan on the back..........oh yes and white leteraset .....and
laquared the front panel...I surprised myself with the result


sorry for the smelling in the above......So the Glasgow club asked me to
do
a talk at their friday night meeting in the late 70's about it.......I
started : 'as I only want matching commercial equipment in my station
...ft101... fv101... sp101....I had to resort to building this to get a
matching 100w 2m transverter'.....that went down
well....not...........still
got that chassis punch I used for the meter...never used it again...tee
hee

Don't sell the punch, unless you can be certain you'll never need it
again.

I saw talk somwhere about the price of punches. I remember them being as
"expensive" forty years ago, but still within range. But apparently now
they have gotten really expensive. The best thing was to know someone who
had a set.

It wasn't uncommon back then to build accessories to match commercial
equipment. People would build things to match Heathkit, either buying a
third party cabinet (there were some that looked alike) and painting it
the right color, or buying a speaker that matched the rig, and using that.
Indeed, I remember various projects where people would stuff things into
the speaker cabinet, lots of room so long as you didnt' need many
controls.

Michael

yes I was deluded about matching equipment in the 70's ...now I hate
matching equipment and frown upon hammy mens that must have it all sitting
lined up just like the sales brochure.....and I just knew I would never use
that punch again......at least with cars you know you will use your torque
wrench....torq sockets......impact screwdriver.....spring clamps.....hub
remover.... and oil filter removal cup wrench...etc