2M Transverter

The lady of the house was kind enough to get me a kit for a 2M transverter this year for christmas. Now, for those of you who aren’t familiar with a transverter, it takes a low frequency signal (in this case 28MHz) and mixes it up to another higher frequency (in this case 144MHz). For me, this allows me to use my very nice FT-950 radio, on a frequency band it wasn’t originally designed for.

Anyway, here are some photos I took during assembly of the kit.

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This is how the kit comes, immediately showing off the big heatsink that the system uses to keep cool.

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Lifting off the heatsink reveals all the packaged components, ready to be assembled into a complete transverter.

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Here’s the front and rear panels. The rear one is shown above the front one.

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Here’s the inside of the transverter after fully assembling the circuit board, and attaching all the connections to the front and back panels.

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This is the completed transverter sitting in a cubby I’ve got below my FT-950.

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