33cm SG-LABS transverter group buy

[jabeco]

Hello all,

With all the recent talk about the 33cm SG-LABS transverters, I thought I'd float the idea of doing a group buy. 

This may accomplish two things, 

Hristiyan might produce them if he has a guaranteed 10 or more on order.

We might get a bulk order discount. 

If you're at all interested in doing something like this please reply to this email so we can get a thread going and bounce ideas around.

I'd feel good about approaching him if we can get a minimum of 8 or 10 folks on board.

.-James KE7KQA  

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[BJ Miller]

How much are these selling for? If the price is reasonable with the CDN buck exchange I would consider it.

BJ 



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[MERLE COX]

James,

 

Count me in. 

Merle W7YOZ

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[Mark Spencer]

If the logistics of shipping to Canada is not to difficult I'd be interested as well.

Thanks
Mark S
VE7AFZ

[James C]

Ok, Great response group!

I've had a lot folks already contact and express an interest into cost,time,shipping,etc. We are at 10 xverters or so already. The more the better., I'd like to make it worth Hristiyan's time (and get us all more PNW 33cm action)...
Please continue to contact me if your interested in an SG-Labs built 144-902 transverter.

We have a couple in the group who already own one and have hands on experience with the thing.
Steve and others, Perhaps you could let us know what you think .. A lot of us are familiar with the 144-1296 model,Here is the link to it:   http://www.sg-lab.com/TR1300/tr1300.html

Is it pretty similar in design? Anything you'd like to see improved? Fire out questions you may have folks.

I'll wait until Monday (tomorrow night) to give people a chance to 'get in' before I send Hristiyan an inquiry email.

I want to stress that this is still 'exploratory'. I want to make sure we had enough folks on board to proceed with approaching Hristiyan about cost and time to delivery. The cost of his 144-1296 model is around $215 after shipping to give you a rough idea.

I'll standby and proceed as planned. As soon as I hear from Hristiyan I will forward the email to the group.

I'll make sure to ask for specs, cost, time, shipping to Canada, and/or anything else specific you'd like to know..

-James KE7KQA DN06

[Edward R Cole]

I might be interested. 
* 902/144 or 903/144?  Only station that has 902/903 is KL6M 65mi N of me.
* Input drive level?  I have 2w from a KX3-2M that I would like using. 
* Output?  Currently, I have 15w in the shack (MOT-Spectra) to drive my 60w MOT amp on the tower for 927.5 FM.
* Separate 900-MHz Tx and Rx connections?  I have a tower mounted preamp.
* Repeater offset is 25-MHz standard with most surplus FM stuff.  That puts the input squarely into the weak-signal band:
927-25 = 902.

I'll look at the 1296/144.

73, Ed - KL7UW

At 01:46 PM 3/20/2016, James C wrote:

Ok, Great response group!

I've had a lot folks already contact and express an interest into cost,time,shipping,etc. We are at 10 xverters or so already. The more the better., I'd like to make it worth Hristiyan's time (and get us all more PNW 33cm action)...
Please continue to contact me if your interested in an SG-Labs built 144-902 transverter.

We have a couple in the group who already own one and have hands on experience with the thing.

Steve and others, Perhaps you could let us know what you think .. A lot of us are familiar with the 144-1296 model,Here is the link to it:   http://www.sg-lab.com/TR1300/tr1300.html

Is it pretty similar in design? Anything you'd like to see improved? Fire out questions you may have folks.
I'll wait until Monday (tomorrow night) to give people a chance to 'get in' before I send Hristiyan an inquiry email.

I want to stress that this is still 'exploratory'. I want to make sure we had enough folks on board to proceed with approaching Hristiyan about cost and time to delivery. The cost of his 144-1296 model is around $215 after shipping to give you a rough idea.

I'll standby and proceed as planned. As soon as I hear from Hristiyan I will forward the email to the group.
I'll make sure to ask for specs, cost, time, shipping to Canada, and/or anything else specific you'd like to know..

-James KE7KQA DN06




On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:26 AM, jabeco <jab...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

With all the recent talk about the 33cm SG-LABS transverters, I thought I'd float the idea of doing a group buy.Â

This may accomplish two things,Â

Hristiyan might produce them if he has a guaranteed 10 or more on order.

We might get a bulk order discount.Â

If you're at all interested in doing something like this please reply to this email so we can get a thread going and bounce ideas around.

I'd feel good about approaching him if we can get a minimum of 8 or 10 folks on board.

.-James KE7KQA Â

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[VA7OTC JD Erskine]

On 2016-03-20 1446, James C wrote:
> Ok, Great response group!

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> We have a couple in the group who already own one and have hands on
> experience with the thing.
> Steve and others, Perhaps you could let us know what you think .. A lot
> of us are familiar with the 144-1296 model,Here is the link to it:
> http://www.sg-lab.com/TR1300/tr1300.html

> Is it pretty similar in design? Anything you'd like to see improved?
> Fire out questions you may have folks.

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> I'll make sure to ask for specs, cost, time, shipping to Canada, and/or
> anything else specific you'd like to know..
>
> -James KE7KQA DN06

Thanks for starting this James.

I had little appreciation for the small size of the 1.2 GHz transverter
until I got down my metal ruler. It's 100 x 114 x 25 mm is about 3
15/16" x 4.5" x 1" inches. Wow.

I gather the "light weight" is then true, or at least possible.

I'd be interested in anyone mentioning what they know about weight,
already communicated or measured.

The supply voltage range of 12 - 13.8 VDC would mean hauling a 12 V
battery along with the FT-817. I suppose there's no way around that,
however it also means it can't be one rated at 9.6 VDC as made for radio
control models. I guess it's time to break into finding/building li-on
packs.

Cheers es 73, John VA7OTC

[Guy N7UN]

James, folks,

I sent LZ5HP/Hristiyan an email requesting a product status update on the 33cm transverter.  Here is his reply:

Hi Guy,
Our 13 cm band transverter had successfully developed and tested. We started the production, the first units must be available at the end of current week.
33 cm tarnsverter also was succesсfully tested. The parameters, are similar, the size and the price are the same as 1296 MHz  transverter. Now I need to made some changes in the design - to add possibility to use external 10 MHz reference (like in 23 cm trv V2.3) and some other minor changes. This will be our next task. I hope to be ready with new version after 4 weeks max., but we will need additional 4 weeks to organize the production. I send the transverters description in attached files. If you have any question, please send me a mail.

73, Hristiyan LZ5HP

So good news!!  The 13 cm transverter is available now with the 33cm in a couple of months.  So James, do we want to organize a group buy for the 13cm now and then another when the 33cm is available?

Guy/n7un

[jabeco]

Great news Guy,

Thanks for checking in with Hristiyan, I was told the same thing about them getting finished up with the 2304 model. 

Thanks for the specs Steve and Guy.

We have 20-25 interested folks and close to 30 units we can approach him about producing.

I WANT TO CLARIFY - I'm not interested in collecting money, shipping, distribution, gnashing of teeth etc. 

Maybe 'group buy' was the wrong term. 

What I'm looking to accomplish is to be able to send Hristiyan an email with a guaranteed 20-30 units we would all purchase.  Payment, delivery and other details would be between you and Hristiyan.

I'll push for a quick delivery date and a pricebreak in exchange for 25 guaranteed unit sales. Something like that.

I'll standby and continue to 'take orders' until this evening, then fire off an email to SG.

.-James KE7KQA 

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