Hi Wayne, please don't sacrifice performance. The internal 2 m transverter should at least have 5 watts output to be useful for normal 2 m applications, 10 W would be even better but I'm not sure this is doable with the space limits. ;-))
A very low power 2 m transverter (10 mW?) is probably not of much use to those who need the transverter for 2 m portable ops (which is very popular in Europe btw.) and these might be the majority of guys wanting the internal transverter. Yes, there are those guys wanting to use it as a microwave I/F radio (me too) which makes perfect sense but especially in this use-case the antenna-tuner für HF is usually not needed ;-)). So therefor I would rather prefer a top notch "normal" transverter with 5 or 10 W (and the possibility to set power as low as 1 or 10 mW for transverter use) and use a T1 externally if I ever needed an antenna matching unit in parallel with the internal transverter. If you'll provide both an internal "high power" 2 m transverter module *and* (alternatively) an internal ATU with 2 m "low power" included I will be a happy camper but can still imagine there are folks who don't want to pay for the "low power" 2 m part in the ATU so you would need a 3rd option being just the tuner without transverter. Not sure that is a good business choice but that is up to you, of course. ;-)) Just wondering if it is worth all the efforts and time investments. But I guess you can never please all at once. ;-)) Anyway, good luck and have fun with the designing tasks. 73, Olli - DH8BQA - Elecraft K3 #4546 w/ K144XV > As I mentioned awhile back, the internal 2-meter option and the > internal ATU are probably going to be mutually-exclusive. You could > always use an Elecraft T1 miniature wide-range ATU if you needed both > at the same time. > > That said, we're going to experiment with a very low-power-output 2-m > transverter that might be small enough to include with the internal > ATU. No guarantees. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
