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On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Stan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Some more questions on transverter operation as part of a repeater site:
>
> The specifications state the TX FM is 5Khz;  will a slice RX handle 16KF3
> without distortion?
>

Yes, I believe so.  The 5kHz simply refers to the deviation, bot the total
occupied bandwidth.

>
> Can a slice transmit to the transverter IF port with an offset while
> concurrently receiving?


The capability exists in the hardware for full duplex, but you will want to
run split-IF.  You will not want to do this on the same antenna connector
(we won't allow you to do this).


> Will a panadapter on this slice show the transmit
> signal as 0dbm?
>

I think you are asking about tx/rx on the same connector at the same time.
 You will want to use separate connectors for tx/rx


> Can multiple slice receivers "transmit" on the transverter port?
>

Today the output bandwidth is limited to 24kHz.  The hardware can support
around 60MHz of bandwidth.  I suspect it would be more trouble than it is
worth to produce multiple carriers, send them out one port, use a
multi-plexer to split these into individual signals and handle all the
keying logic.  Possible, probably.  Practical, probably not.


> Can two SCUs be assigned to the transverter port?
>

For what purpose?  I suspect this question is being asked because a
misunderstanding about how SmartSDR functions.

>
> Can a slice be set to recognize a low frequency tone to break the squelch?
> And related, would this still happen when the audio low frequency limit is
> set above the tone frequency?  i.e. support repeater tone squelch
>

This is very possible.  Are you asking about CTCSS/PL/DPL/CG/etc?

>
> This comes around to using a 6000 as a multiple repeater RX (50 144 220 and
> 440 concurrently) and optionally using a 6000 to also perform transmit duty
> by inserting one or more 0dbm signals on the transverter port while
> concurrently receiving.  (The VHF/UHF transmitters would require selective
> band pass filters to recognize the presence of a transmit signal and
> cavities to share the same antenna)
>
> An alternate configuration is to use the 6000 (even 6700R) in receive only
> and use the resulting audio (directed to a virtual port) to trigger the
> repeater transmitter side (crystal controlled TX frequency in the
> transmitter).
>

Well, I think it would probably be easier to develop a product to address
this specific requirement than it would be to use a F6K to do it.  The
receive side of what you are suggesting could be done external to the
radio.  The transmit side would require multiple transmit slices in the
radio and a change to how we do transmitting.  It is possible, but I
suspect there are so few people that would use this that it's just not
practical.

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