[amsat-bb] AO-92 L/V with an Alinco DJ-G7T full-duplex (long)

[Rick Tejera]

Patrick, for me the tradeoff was the price. I bought the same Yagi you did,
came this week. I do plan on making a hybrid antenna for L/V. The design I
saw was for 1296, I want to reach out to Kent and see if there are any
significant alterations to bring it down to 1267. 

Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
Saguaro Astronomy Club
www.saguaroastro.org
Thunderbird Amateur Radio Club
www.W7TBC.org

-----Original Message-----
From: AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org> On Behalf Of Patrick STODDARD
(WD9EWK/VA7EWK)
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2019 7:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] AO-92 L/V with an Alinco DJ-G7T full-duplex (long)

Hi Rick!

I didn't look for the Comet equivalent diplexer when I had HRO ship me the
MX-37. Looking at the two, it seems like it's a matter of tradeoffs in
picking one over the other (except for price - the Comet diplexer is $10
more at HRO - and not clearly in stock at any of those stores). You get
lower insertion loss with the Comet, but better isolation between the band
ports with the Diamond.

Alinco's EDS-14 had been more widely available for a while, but now it looks
like it has been replaced by the EDS-10.
The manager at the Phoenix HRO store was the one that told me about the
Yaesu CT-91 speaker/mic adapter working with the DJ-G7T, which I confirmed
for myself. Alinco's web site still shows both the EDS-10 and EDS-14 as
"plug conversion cables" to take the speaker/mic jack and split out separate
jacks for the speaker and microphone, where the latest PDF version of the
owner's manual allocates an entire page to the EDS-14 and doesn't mention
the EDS-10.

Do you have a 1.2 GHz antenna of some sort? There are WA5VJB designs for
that band, a Comet antenna sold at HRO and other stores, and a couple of
Yagis available on eBay (among other options). There's at least 3 of us who
work
AO-92 L/V from the DM43 side of metro Phoenix (you can also hear K7TAB and
N7NEV on AO-92 L/V). Other than two weeks ago when K7YDL was on from DM33,
there hasn't been regular L/V activity from your side of the city. Join us!

Hope to hear you soon on AO-92 L/V. 73!




Patrick WD9EWK/VA7EWK
http://www.wd9ewk.net/
Twitter: @WD9EWK or http://twitter.com/WD9EWK





On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 1:06 AM Rick Tejera <SaguaroAstro at cox.net> wrote:

> Patrick, I found a Comet CF-416 Diplexer at the superstition hamfest 
> back in December for $25.00  pretty much just as the one you have 
> (Common--> N connector the 1.2 pigtail the same and the 144/430 a 
> PL259. Stopping on the way home tomorrow to get the EDS-10, I don't 
> see the EDS-14 you spoke of offered anymore.
>
> I see HRO ahs the CF-416W, which is essentially the same:
> https://www.hamradio.com/detail.cfm?pid=H0-007421 ,
>
> Rick Tejera (K7TEJ)
>
>
>
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