A 10 Ghz Dual Conversion High Side LO Transverter
from Surplus Qualcomm OmniTracks
Units
By Kerry Banke, N6IZW
Last Modified July 9, 2000
Author's Note: The original version of this article was presented at the Microwave
Update
'99 Conference in Plano, Texas, October 1999, and published by ARRL in the
Proceedings
of that Conference. Due my problems in submitting the original photos
for publication
in that document, the details of the modifications were difficult to
discern in
the published photos. Since there has been significant interest by others in
modifying
these units, I am providing all the photos, plus corrections noted since the
Conference
in these web pages. I hope this will help many of you in successfully
converting
these units for amateur use.
The web version of this article is presented
in three parts, plus figures for each:
Part One describes
the overall transverter concept and design.
Figures for
Part One
Part Two describes the modification procedures
in detail.
Figures for Part Two
Part
Three addresses the updates and corrections since the October '99
publication.