"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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"Jim GM4DHJ ..." wrote in message
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"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

ah yes and it had jackson bull slo mo drives as well as yaesu knobs ....

did you know the original ft101 ser used British Jackson drives on the
vfo?...about 17 Kc/s a turn where trio at the time went from 20 on the ts520
to 25 on the ts530 etc.....why I always slag off trio ........but all said
the 520 was the best of the hybrids