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