"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