Sunday, 2 February 2020

PA for 70 cm transverter

From BG7SGM, I ordered a PA module for 70 cm:
It is capable of delivering appr. 20 Watts RF at 70 cm. The module uses a M57704H.

I installed the module in the 28 - 432 MHz transverter:



A good heatsink is required. For the first time I used the repeater shift mode of the FT450. For 70 cm repeaters, in The Netherlands the repeater shift is 1.6 MHz. I also had to insert the CTCSS frequency of 88.5 Hz. I made a short QSO with PA0WBS via the Rotterdam repeater (430.300 MHz out). 


A quick measurement showed that the transverter delivered 15 Watts RF. Now, the challenge is to work in digimodes and see what is possible (FT-8 in particular).

See bg7sgm.taobao.com  and eBay for more RF products from BG7SGM (use google translate!).