We were thinking along the lines of 200-500 mW for the "micro transverter", if it's even possible. The regular transverter option could be as high as 5 W. We'll see.
Wayne N6KR On Aug 26, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
