On July 15 worked WA6PY, W5LUA and G4CCH (initial #25) despite water getting through the tarpaulin and into PA during overnight storm. Conditions however were much better than previous day with less fadeouts.
Saturday night I was hit by an inspiration as to how to get more than one "split" TX/RX frequency pair available on the K3. The K3 has the capability for 10 transverter bands. I realised there is NO requirement for the Transverters to be configured to be on different bands. I used the utility program to save an image of the K3 before I started playing with the menus. XV3, XV4, XV5 and XV6 were all set up as 3400RF, 28MHz IF, Internal transverter -1dBm IF drive, with no frequency offset (the 9cm transverter and evrything in the K3 is GPS locked). I can setup XV3 with the TX/RX frequencies to hear my echoes leaving the other three to be setup as needed to work stations with the option to quickly switch back and check echoes At the end of the weekend I could restore the K3 to transverter normalness by reloading the saved image using the Utility programme
Opportunity was also taken to adjust software in the PICs to increase update rate of the shack LCD of parameters from remote amplifier
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| K5GW 9cm signal off the moon |
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