Does anyone have a WRD-750 flange which I could buy off of them? I need it to
make a transition from a big TWT which is fitted with a WRD-750 flange to
WG17.

WRD750 is a ridged WG with major internal dimensions similar to WG17.

I'm also in the market for a WRD-750 load so that I can test my transition...

Vy 73

Chris
GW4DGU

In a message dated 23/05/2006 16:48:18 GMT Standard Time, usuallyqrt@... writes:

Looking at the data sheets for silver content.
Johnson Matthey two part epoxy quotes 70% silver.
Chemence Ionocure 6500 two part epoxy % not stated.
Circuitworks 2400 two part epoxy quotes 60-90%

There are a number of Chemists qrv on microwaves! I wonder can one of those give a definitive answer? Reg G8VHI

I can't answer the question - I'd like an answer myself, 'cos at £50 for the
RS product, I'm rather put off!

While trawling the net I did come across a site which suggested making silver
loaded epoxy yourself by buying silver powder, and mixing it 50/50
(presumably by volume) with the epoxy/hardener mix. I haven't investigated
silver powder yet, but that's presumably available at a reasonable price from
chemical reagent suppliers.

Vy 73

Chris
GW4DGU

Anyone know of a cheap source of SMALL quantities of silver loaded conductive epoxy for sticking
microwave leadless diodes in place?

Most suppliers seem to sell it by the bucket load at huge cost and it goes off before you can use it
all.

(Silver loaded paint is a non-starter as its not conductive enough)

73 de Chris G8BKE

Web Site:-
http://www.qsl.net/g8bke/index.html

Bob,

I have used this dish with a the dual mode feedhorn for 10GHz
http://www.qsl.net/g3pho/horn.htm

and also a dual band feed horn for 10 and 24G albeit not "in anger" out /P! However with both feeds
it seems to perform well on beacon reception compared with say a 60cms offset.
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g8bke/tenghz.htm


Chris





Hi
I would be interested in anyone using a 'sky' type dish on 3cms that
is one 50cms wide and 40cms high details of thier findings re feed
horn etc at present I am using the original.
Regards
Bob








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Some of you must have bought these boxes at rallies last year

can someone email me a quick pic of the external view and internals
and some rough internal dimensions of the box please?

that would be appreciated!

thanks!

Simon


--- In ukmicrowaves@..., "gm4plm" <simon@...> wrote:

If anyone else has a unused DMC case I would glas to hear from you!

Andy GM7GDE (now DL5KAH) is going to use my old WGD 10g system

from

his home QTH in Düsseldorf

So another case would not go amiss to help him

he has my old wdg system and we just got him a 1w pa so he will be

a

newcomer on the band!

rgds

Simon DL4PLM/GM4PLM/PA4...... !






--- In ukmicrowaves@..., "gm4plm" <simon@> wrote:

what was the name of the company in Burton(?) that sold the 24g

parts??

I am looking for the case that houses these

does anyone have a spare DMC unit they have ripped all the parts

out??

rgds

Simon Dl4PLM

Ahhh perfik!

thanks!!

Simon

Mike

I know the site but didnt see anything on there.

Not sure this was the same people

they appeared in friedrichshafen and weinheim last year

remember they had all the 24g stuff set out?

I thought it was taurus but I couldnt see the details on the ham
radio website with the display list

!

typical!

:-)




--- In ukmicrowaves@..., "Willis, MJ &#92;(Michael&#92;)"
<m.j.willis@...> wrote:

Try Sinequanon Surplus Electronics via Ebay.

Mike

________________________________

From: ukmicrowaves@...

[mailto:ukmicrowaves@...]

On Behalf Of gm4plm
Sent: 23 May 2006 08:43
To: ukmicrowaves@...
Subject: [ukmicrowaves] contact details for Taurus Electronics (??)


Guys

does anyone have the contact details for taurus electronics

I think these were the guys selling the 24g link gear at the

rallies??

rgds

Simon

Guys

does anyone have the contact details for taurus electronics

I think these were the guys selling the 24g link gear at the rallies??

rgds

Simon

Guys

does anyone have the contact details for taurus electronics

I think these were the guys selling the 24g link gear at the rallies??

rgds

Simon

Charles on 01509 646822

  73 's Geoff M0RMG

Hi
I would be interested in anyone using a 'sky' type dish on 3cms that
is one 50cms wide and 40cms high details of thier findings re feed
horn etc at present I am using the original.
Regards
Bob

If anyone else has a unused DMC case I would glas to hear from you!

Andy GM7GDE (now DL5KAH) is going to use my old WGD 10g system from
his home QTH in Düsseldorf

So another case would not go amiss to help him

he has my old wdg system and we just got him a 1w pa so he will be a
newcomer on the band!

rgds

Simon DL4PLM/GM4PLM/PA4...... !






--- In ukmicrowaves@..., "gm4plm" <simon@...> wrote:

what was the name of the company in Burton(?) that sold the 24g

parts??

I am looking for the case that houses these

does anyone have a spare DMC unit they have ripped all the parts

out??

rgds

Simon Dl4PLM

We wouldn't rule out a USB interface in the long term, but we've set
our sights on Ethernet as we feel is does the best job all round.
There is such a thing as Power over Ethernet (PoE) which can handle
more power than a USB port, 15W I think, and we will look into that in
due course also.

I've certainly used USB to Ethernet adapters and they work very well.
We are using 100baseT, not 10baseT due to bandwidth requirements.

I'm not sure that a web interface is suitable for a weak signal radio,
maybe with AJAX it would be usable, but we're not going there yet. The
PC end has to be a thick client as that is where the DSP is done, and
even with a web front end, there is still significant processing
behind the scenes.

I am thinking in the long term that we could split the GUI
functionality and the DSP part and use IP for that too. The audio
could be decimated/interpolated to 8 KHz sample rate which would
reduce the bandwidth requirements considerably, but that would be
after the DSP. There is at least one amateur operating remotely such a
station, in fact across national boundaries!

Just imagine a remote shack on a mountain ......

Jonathan ON/G4KLX (G4KLX from Wednesday PM for a few days)

Some comments

Ethernet V. USB
The IP address (lack of) problem in a company network. You can use a
USB to Ethernet adaptor to turn the Ethernet port into USB;
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002AFKN0/026-1538281-3316427
No need to beg an IP address.

Ethernet is OS agnostic.

Ethernet cable can be 200m long, USB is good for 5m.

Lack of Ethernet power, could still use the USB port for power only
(as in the SoftRock).

Bandwidth for ATV, at home run Freeview TV over Ethernet and Wi-Fi
every day without any problem, so don't think it will be an issue.

Ethernet also supports remote operation.

GUI
The colour scheme can be changed, a good example is Ham Radio Deluxe
that supports high contrast colour schemes.

Using Ethernet and a mini Webserver a new GUI design could be 30
minutes with an HTML editor.

--- In ukmicrowaves@..., "Willis, MJ &#92;(Michael&#92;)"
<m.j.willis@...> wrote:

________________________________

From: ukmicrowaves@...

[mailto:ukmicrowaves@...]

On Behalf Of Jonathan Naylor
Sent: 15 May 2006 09:47
To: ukmicrowaves@...
Subject: [ukmicrowaves] Re: Microwave SDR Group


Hi Mike

I still think USB2 is a better interface for use in the field but

I

understand why you went for Ethernet.

I would disagree on this point. We want to be able to support the
software on multiple platforms and USB is painful to program to. The
socket interface is standard, has adequate bandwidth and allows for
stacking of multiple radios easily.

That is true, but the real problem is bandwidth. I guess for this
application, Ethernet is OK, for DATV I doubt it could keep up.

Hardware - modular is the way to go. I think you can do better

than

200mW and 3 dB NF but I suspect this is merely the back end to a

low

noise amplifier and a driver for the high power amplifier.

Correct. Most microwave operators are familiar with system design in
terms of components, and by keeping the output power low, and the
receiver average, we keep the price low, the design easily
reproducable, and enough to drive most amplifiers. We still want to
keep a market open for DB6NT don't we? :-)

Can you add 70cms to the front end list? I don't man as a rig for

the

band, just as a nice band to use for a transverter IF for those

of us

with transverters already.

It has been talked about. If someone were to come forward and

design a

front end, it might arrive even quicker. The constraints on design

are

not bad, the local oscillator must be clean BUT it does not need to
tune in 1Hz steps, the DSP can interpolate, and so on. Why not have

a

go Mike?

I don't have enough info, but is it not almost the same as 23cms?

Divide

the LO by 3?
I agree 1 Hz steps are not needed at all, if you have 100kHz of
bandwidth in I and Q 10kHz steps should do nicely.
More controversy, why does the LO need to be highly stable at all?

Why

can you not use a DDS to generate a "dirty" signal, multiply this

up to

act as an in band beacon and and have a cleaner LO frequency locked

to

it by the software every so often. All the LO filtering is then

done by

DSP and it does not matter that the DDS spurs are only 40 dB down.

As

long as the clean LO does not drift too much this should be OK. You
could reset it each second for example. A clean LO could be a

crystal

source like that from the IC202S multiplied up. That circuit manages
200kHz range at 144MHz with very low phase noise. Translating that

up

either by multiplication or by mixing should give an LO with good

short

term stability, reasonable and correctable drift.

Whatever Gui interface you design, it needs to be usable with a

laptop

on a hilltop when you can't see the screen very well. The current
picture on the web page looks great but would be almost

impossible to

use in a field.

What makes you say that? There is no easy design for GUIs that will
suit all people, so by keeping it simple and going with a design

that

echoes the IC-706 I have hopefully meant that the least number of
people will find annoying/unusable.

What I mean is that the screen needs a very high contrast colour

scheme

and relatively large figures.
You could make this configurable. For example, grey buttons on a

grey

background are not easy to see when there is sun on the screen.

This is

the windows default. It might be that you are using windows default
calls so that changes made in the settings would come thorough, but
realistically, a high contract colour scheme is not a bad idea. The
latest Anristu and Agilent test gear with LCD displays does this so
there must be a demand.

Mike





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just the box

im working on putting my 3,4g tvr and SSPA in it!

so just need an idea of dimensions internally

tks



--- In ukmicrowaves@..., <g8zha@...> wrote:

It is all stripped out. I chucked the bits away, they were from a

7GHz link.

Did you just want the box?

Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "gm4plm" <simon@...>
To: <ukmicrowaves@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:30 PM
Subject: [ukmicrowaves] Re: dmc 24g tvtrs??



Rich thats fine!

im happy to carry the post

do you have a pic of the internals?

rgds

Simon



--- In ukmicrowaves@..., <g8zha@> wrote:

I have got one of the cast ally cases that housed a DMC duplicated

ODU. Its

a bit heavy though....postage will be expensive from Westmids.

Regards, Rich



----- Original Message -----
From: "gm4plm" <simon@>
To: <ukmicrowaves@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: [ukmicrowaves] dmc 24g tvtrs??

what was the name of the company in Burton(?) that sold the 24g

parts??

I am looking for the case that houses these

does anyone have a spare DMC unit they have ripped all the parts

out??

rgds

Simon Dl4PLM







Yahoo! Groups Links

Yahoo! Groups Links

It is all stripped out. I chucked the bits away, they were from a 7GHz link.
Did you just want the box?

Rich

Rich thats fine!

im happy to carry the post

do you have a pic of the internals?

rgds

Simon



--- In ukmicrowaves@..., <g8zha@...> wrote:

I have got one of the cast ally cases that housed a DMC duplicated

ODU. Its

a bit heavy though....postage will be expensive from Westmids.

Regards, Rich



----- Original Message -----
From: "gm4plm" <simon@...>
To: <ukmicrowaves@...>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: [ukmicrowaves] dmc 24g tvtrs??

what was the name of the company in Burton(?) that sold the 24g

parts??

I am looking for the case that houses these

does anyone have a spare DMC unit they have ripped all the parts

out??

rgds

Simon Dl4PLM







Yahoo! Groups Links

I have got one of the cast ally cases that housed a DMC duplicated ODU. Its
a bit heavy though....postage will be expensive from Westmids.

Regards, Rich