5760 Transverter

20 November 2023 - Adjusted the dish feed today.

17 November 2023 - Did a rough assembly of the feed this morning.

14 November 2023 - Assembled the dish mount this morning.

13 November 2023 - Assembled the feed holder yesterday - will be working on this more later this week.

 

 

11 November 2023 - Worked on the dish - removed the N-connector - next will be to locate the places where the struts will be located to support the feed.

9 November 2023 - Last weekend at the Atlanta Hamfest I picked up the dish from Bob W4ZST that I  will be using on 5760 - it's very light weight and I will install the struts and the Directive Systems Dual 10G/5760 feed I purchased - it will look very similar to my 10G Directive Systems dish.

 

11 December 2022 - Getting the 5760 transverter hooked up and tested - built another key buffer for this and the 3400 transverter.  During testing I discovered the unit has an apolLO-32 and not a digiLO as I was told - the apolLO-32 requires the external 10MHz reference be connected since it does not have a on-board 10MHz reference.

27 November 2022 - 2304/5760 panel antenna.

26 November 2022 - received the 5760 transverter I purchased.

17 November 2022 - Got a really good deal on a Demi 5706 transverter.  Should be here in a few days.

902 Transverter

16 November 2023 - Q5 902 transverter arrived and I hooked it up - not seeing the issue I saw with the SG Labs transverter which was sent back for repair.

13 November 2023 - Paid Q5 invoice for new transverter today - Corey said it should ship to me in the next day or two.  Looks like it shipped - current ETA is Wednesday.

 

30 October 2023 - Ordered a new Q5 902 25W transverter - I will be sending the SG Labs 902 back to Bulgaria for repair.  Once the SG Labs unit returns from repair the Q5 transverter will become my rover.

28 July 2023 - Tried to work Vic WB4SLM in EM85DA (Hayesville) - he reported I was 5x5 but I could not hear him - I need to get rid of these Comet Window Jumpers - they have way too much loss at anything above 400MHz and they can't handle much power.

18 March 2023 - The Q5 60W amp arrived while I was away and I hooked it up today.

12 March 2023 - Paid the invoice for the Q5 amp and it should ship this week.

13 February 2023 - Ordered a 60W Q5 amplifier.  The 902 antenna is on the tower.

19 November 2022 - Made my first contact on 902 with WB4SLM who was at his home East of Hayesville, NC - he was running 60w and I was running 3w.  He reported pulsing noise on the band but was able to copy me just above the noise.

15 November 2022 - Last week I received the SG Labs 902 Transverter I ordered in September - more to come on this.  It is not connected to an external antenna currently but will be once my tower is up.  I have a M2 17-element antenna that I will use with it.

10GHz DTV dish

 

11 November 2023 - Picked up two DTV dishes from Bob W4ZST at the Atlanta Hamfest last weekend - will test my 10GHz system with them - not sure which feed I will use yet.