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the excitement of the 50Mhz amateur band easily to any modern
ham transceiver, including all those 20-Meter-Only QRP rigs. A transverter lets you transmit as well as receive on 6 Meters using the precision digital tuning, available modes, memories and other features of your HF transceiver. It's simple: 14.000 Mhz on your display or dial becomes 50.000 MHz. To operate SSB on 50.200 MHz simply switch the 1208 to 6 Meters, tune to 14.200, keep transceiver output power under 5 watts and just go for it! The 8 watts RF output is generous power during good band opeings and for local communications and repeaters.FEATURES:
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Here are excerpts of what QST had to say about the 1208 transverter kit in their PRODUCT REVIEW:"No HF radio? The price of the transverter and a used HF radio (or a new Ten-Tec Scout) can be well below the price of the lowest-priced new HF/6-meter combination radio. The transverter even works with some of the low-power transceiver kits out on the market, The Ten-Tec 1208 is an inexpensive way to explore the possibilities of a new band. Besides, it's a great feeling putting something you've built on the air." "Although the basic idea is simple, the unit is a sophisticated piece of circuitry that includes attenuators, an oscillator, mixer, 50-MHz receive and transmit circuitry, and appropriate filters. Almost everything is mounted on a single, high-quality double-sided circuit board. Components are also of high quality" "Ten-Tec has done an excellent job with the manual for the 1208; it's reminiscent of those included with the kits of yesteryear" "The Ten-Tec 1208 is a handy and economical way to check out the 6-meter band. Its small size means you don't have to build another room for it, and it works well mobile, too. It's a fun kit to build, and it should introduce many more people to 6 meters." (reprinted from QST magazine, June 1996, by permission of the American Radio Relay League) |