Yes it is nice to see development activity from Apache. If you look at the 100W and 1000W PEP versions the cost of the extra PA is very reasonable.

If you look at the website you can see that VSWR protection is available.

Thanks Scott I will give that a try this evening. It would be much better to have an independent RX.

Regards

Conrad

Hello all I want to use my ANAN-100D on the QO-100 satellite. The ideal situation would be to allow the use of 2 transverters, one on ADC1 which will be used for TX and the other on RX2. I need duplex operation. As I understand it DUPLEX only works on RX1. Is it even possible to listen to RX2 while ...

Yes it is clear Scott, I have read the CAT command reference more fully and I see the references for RX2. I will ask Michael Black if he can help on the WSJT-X dev forum.

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Hello Gary, nice to see you again.

I am looking for the convenience factor :-)

Sometimes I might use RX2 with a transverter while monitoring RX1 on 6m . So I select 2m in WSJT-X and it sets the frequency of RX2.

I am already a luddite because I key the ANAN with an external PTT. Why? Because I ...

Hello all. Is it possible to connect WSJT-X by CAT or (preferably TCP) to RX2? I would like to monitor 50.313 on RX1 and 50.323 on RX2 with 2 separate versions of WSJT-X. Is this possible? I am using the latest Thetis release and I am using TCP on RX1 which is excellent.

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Conrad PA5Y

Late to the party but I like the PreSonus Eris 3.5s for radio purposes including BC FM, they are easily good enough to hang off an SDR. They are not expensive.

In a previous life as a recording engineer I never liked JBLs and after a recent visit to my local emporium I still don't. However this is ...

I am looking for an Angelia board to use with transverters. Please let me know if you have one available.

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Conrad PA5Y

I am afraid that it means nothing to me and does not excuse the pitiful customer communications throughout. I asked for a refund and to Apache's credit this was dealt with reasonably quickly.

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Conrad PA5Y

I feel the same way. Last month I said that I would give it one more month, tomorrow would be the deadline but instead I will pull the plug today. I paid with PayPal so I will get a refund via this route if necessary.

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I have almost reached my tolerance level for this now. Very poor communication and repeated broken promises. I would not be so annoyed if Apache had been more honest and open. Meanwhile I bought an FDM-Duo which will do the same job.

I will give it one more month and then cancel my order and obtain ...

Indeed it does state new orders will have an 8 week lead time. Which begs the question what is the status of old orders? I ordered mine in February. Could Apache be so kind as to indicate when decidedly not new orders will be shipped?

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Conrad Farlow PA5Y

Thank you to Abhi for contacting me using his private email. All issues are now resolved. It appears that the Apache email server emails were not reaching me for some reason. The ones reminding me to complete the order that I could not cancel were arriving with regularity, throughout the whole of ...

Still no response to emails. This is really not good enough. Has anyone tried the landline number, does that work?

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Conrad PA5Y

Hello Ken,

The component kit for the Hermes card has been provided to the Contract Manufacturer and is in queue for production, we expect them to take up Hermes in the next 2-3 weeks,

The 10W PA production is complete and for those who have ordered one these will ship with the Hermes boards ...

Since yesterday an additional item for the PA only has appeared. I managed to order one, furthermore I was able to remove the previous order so things appear as expected.

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Conrad PA5Y

It is very nice to see the updated shipping information. I tried to order a 10W PA in order to supplement my earlier order from February but unfortunately the checkout then insisted that I buy another Hermes for a total price of $588,00. I could not find a way of ordering the PA as an upgrade to my ...

Hello I am looking for a used ANAN-7000DLE, don't care what colour face it has, prefer from Europe. I am also interested in an Angelia.

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Conrad PA5Y

Sorry, not sure what happened there:

https://apache-labs.com/community/viewt ... f=3&t=4051

Thanks for the info.

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Conrad PA5Y

Is this the latest P2 release for the Apache Special Production Run Hermes 14 bit?

https://apache-labs.com/al-products/102 ... ested.html

I have ordered one and would like to try it with SDR Console which requires P2.

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Conrad PA5Y

Does anyone know if a suitable enclosure is already available for the Hermes.

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Conrad PA5Y

Hello Dom sorry I missed your subsequent posts. I checked mine again and it really does appear to be better. I am beginning to doubt my instruments again! I will take it to work and check it on a more modern calibrated R&S spectrum analyser.

Nobody is interested because most of them have such high ...

Indeed Scott. In my defense I use modern instruments at work every day and so I had all but forgotten about these limitations. I bought the HP 8562A as I have started to use microwave bands and needed to know what I was transmitting. I had no way of knowing what was happening on 10368 MHz and so it ...

That is not 11W but 13W as well.

Well how embarrassed am I?

The spurs are from the HP-8562A! Here is what it looks like with a proper spectrum analyser, as I expected it to be.



I am not ashamed to admit that I am wrong.

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w-u-2-o wrote:What spectrum analyzer are you using? From the plots it looks like an HP. I've got an HP8560E here.

I used an HP8562A however for the IC-7300 I used an E4406B, I'll re-do the ANAN-10 with the E4406B in a while.

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Conrad

As promised IC-7300 at 100W CW. I had to use a better instrument with an even lower RBW to see what was going on. I used peak hold for 30 seconds.

I think that the standards are woefully inadequate by amateur weak signal standards. That's why suburban amateurs hear loads of noise. Equipment may be ...

Of course there are.

The budget IC7300 is better than this. Tomorrow I will do some plots. It is difficult in a superhet but not so difficult from a DAC. It can be solved I am sure of that.

Conrad

Hello all.

I have an ANAN-10 that I intend to use on 6m with an SSPA and with 144 and 432 transverters which will be used on the intended band and as drivers for microwave transverters.

There are lot of RX spurs on 28 and 50 MHz but that is the subject of a separate topic.

I will concentrate on ...

Using 2 Tone testing I am a little surprised at the two tone performance of the ANAN-10 at 8W. The TX output however is very good so I wonder if I have a bad PA?

Here are some images:

First 28 MHz from the TX out with the PA disabled this is at the same level that produces 8W PEP in later ...