[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution

2011-12-01 Thread John Wright
At 17:55 30/11/2011, you wrote: Hi John, I had heard of the down converter solution before and purchased a used down converter. Unfortunately it seemed to pick up the TS- 2000 bird nearly as well as the TS-2000. I just lashed the setup together so maybe taking more care to isolate the converter

[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution

2011-12-01 Thread i8cvs
- Original Message - From: John Wright h...@g4dmf.co.uk To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:24 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution At 17:55 30/11/2011, you wrote: Hi John, I had heard of the down converter solution before

[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution

2011-11-30 Thread Andrew Glasbrenner
Hi John, Thanks for writing that up. With a simple diagram, it would make an excellent Journal article (hint hint). I should also point out that High Sierra Microwave makes a UHF to HF converter, the 435M7 near the bottom of the page at http://www.hsmicrowave.com/page12.html . It outputs to

[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution

2011-11-30 Thread Mike Miller
Hi John, I had heard of the down converter solution before and purchased a used down converter. Unfortunately it seemed to pick up the TS- 2000 bird nearly as well as the TS-2000. I just lashed the setup together so maybe taking more care to isolate the converter from the TS-2000 might improve

[amsat-bb] Re: TS2000 ~436.798 MHz Birdie Solution

2011-11-30 Thread K5OE
John's solution is also one I have used for years: feeding a separate signal into the receive-only HF input on the TS-2000. I ran this way on AO-40 as well, taking the 2m signal from the atenna-mounted downconverter and running it through a Hamtronics 2m-10m converter to both the TS-2000 and