11 Feb
2015
11 Feb
'15
9:34 a.m.
Got my Funcube Dongle PRO + today and was wondering about the consequences of transmitting into it. No I haven't done it yet, but in the past with such devices you operate on a system that requires you tx on 2 banks alternately this will happen. How do I know this? In the AO-40 days I think I replaced the front end in my 2.4 gig downconverter at least 3 times. It wasn't so bad after the first time, after I ordered several replacement chips to fix the one I fried in the frontend of the Drake D/C. I see the Funcube is sealed so I must ask, has anyone had the misfortune to do this? Or does anyone have a protection scheme to share?
73 Jeff kb2m