I have a K3 with the XV transverters for 2 and 3/4 meters. (NOTE: these are the outboard transverters!) They drive 2 and 3/4 meter TE Systems brick amps to about 300 watts and 75 W respectively.
Two comments: 1. The inboard transverter for 2 meters could never be made to function...the unit oscillated with great abandon, despite the best advices of Elecraft. If you look back through the archives, you will find several reports, including one from VK, reportiong this behavior. The K3 works flawlessly with the external units, which I built from kits. 2. For anything but local use, the most important part of the chain is the antenna; its location, height, gain, etc. In particular, at 3/4 meters the bound -water dielectric loss from water in vegetation is very significant, and the antenna must be well above (i.e. must "look" over) nearby trees, Koala Bears, etc. I use a 10 element beam on 2 and an 11 element beam on 3/4 meters, and these are barely adequate for DX use from my location. A good antenna installation (high-gain array, proper feed lines) will overcome any slight deficiencies in the transverter front end...if one can hear antenna noise, one is fine. John Ragle -- W1ZI ========== On 9/15/2012 10:05 AM, Gary Gregory wrote: > *Has anyone got a K3 with the 2M and 70cm transverters got any comments > plus or minus as to performance. > > I don't have them myself but a VK is about to order his K3 and will be > adding these transverters. > > His interest is HF, 2 and 70cm and not 6M. > > I thought I would ask here as I don't know what to tell him due to lack of > experience in the higher bands. > > Off list or On is OK as long as it doesn't flood the reflector with > QRM.....:-) > > 73 > * -- Sent from my lovely old Dell XPS 420 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
