I did not mean for my sarcasim to be insulting, I gather they must go hand in hand, my opologies...
So I did find a hombrew 2-meter all band in the 1999 QST, Sept,Oct,Nov... called the DSP-10. A little more than I was looking for and I think it was discontinued. Several hundred were sold. http://www.proaxis.com/~boblark/dsp10.htm
Goes to show it can be done. Roger I think said something about a downconverter, I do have an old 10-meter maybe that will work. Still would like to make a 2-meter and a 70cm SSB radio probly have to be two kits.
Still searching I have sent like 20 e-mails to kit stores we shall see.
Any more ideas would be great! Did I curb the sarcastic remarks? Oh that was one wasnt it...LOL
Kevin
At 08:43 AM 3/5/2011 -0800, you wrote:
I did not mean for my sarcasim to be insulting, I gather they must go hand in hand, my opologies...
So I did find a hombrew 2-meter all band in the 1999 QST, Sept,Oct,Nov... called the DSP-10. A little more than I was looking for and I think it was discontinued. Several hundred were sold. http://www.proaxis.com/~boblark/dsp10.htm
Goes to show it can be done. Roger I think said something about a downconverter, I do have an old 10-meter maybe that will work.
That brings back a memory when I first started.
I didn't have all mode VHF equipment, just a two meter FM rig and a kenwood TS-440. I wanted to listen to some of the SSB activity on two meters, so I took the cover off the two meter rig, and tapped the IF from the FM rig to the TS-440, and I could receive 2m SSB. Even though the FM rig only did 5 khz steps, the IF output was still wide enough to cover everything in the vicinity of the 2m frequency.
The things we do to have fun sometimes.
KB7ADL
Tony Parks (KB9YIG) who makes the SoftRocks, on occasion has a 2 meter receiver kit for approximately $50 or so. Since it's an SDR, you are only limited by software as to the modes it covers.
I think if we email him enough, he'll start to make them available again.
The only 70cm kit that I know of, is the UHFSDR (WB6DHW) which just recently started to become available.
Another alternative is the Fun Cube Dongle. Although not a kit, it's an SDR with coverage from roughly 50 Mhz to 2 Ghz.
73 de Sebastian, W4AS
On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Kevin Deane wrote:
Goes to show it can be done. Roger I think said something about a downconverter, I do have an old 10-meter maybe that will work. Still would like to make a 2-meter and a 70cm SSB radio probly have to be two kits.
Still searching I have sent like 20 e-mails to kit stores we shall see.
Any more ideas would be great! Did I curb the sarcastic remarks? Oh that was one wasnt it...LOL
Kevin
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Kevin Deane [email protected] wrote:
I did not mean for my sarcasim to be insulting, I gather they must go hand in hand, my opologies...
We're sensitive on the AMSAT-BB, aren't we? ;)
Goes to show it can be done. Roger I think said something about a downconverter, I do have an old 10-meter maybe that will work. Still would like to make a 2-meter and a 70cm SSB radio probly have to be two kits.
I'd *love* to see a kit, something suitable for beginners (and more of an assembly of large parts and not so much soldering) such as the Elecrafts for HF — but for a small SSB rig suitable for full-duplex satellite use on VHF and UHF. It still amazes me that the IC-W32A is the only recent crossband HT like that.
So get to designing! Maybe if you reached out to the Elecraft folk they'd give you some ideas.
Bryan Green KL7CN Usually /W6 in CM98fn 408-836-7279
Along the same theme: how hard is it to restart a project like the DSP-10? I remember emailing them (or it might've been TAPR) on the DSP-10 and not getting a good response. The thing that sucks for me was this project probably died way before I had my Tech or head of QST.
frank b. kb1qzh
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Kevin Deane [email protected] wrote:
I did not mean for my sarcasim to be insulting, I gather they must go hand in hand, my opologies...
So I did find a hombrew 2-meter all band in the 1999 QST, Sept,Oct,Nov... called the DSP-10. A little more than I was looking for and I think it was discontinued. Several hundred were sold. http://www.proaxis.com/~boblark/dsp10.htm
Goes to show it can be done. Roger I think said something about a downconverter, I do have an old 10-meter maybe that will work. Still would like to make a 2-meter and a 70cm SSB radio probly have to be two kits.
Still searching I have sent like 20 e-mails to kit stores we shall see.
Any more ideas would be great! Did I curb the sarcastic remarks? Oh that was one wasnt it...LOL
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