Monthly Archives: October 2009 - Page 3

Amp converted for 160

Since we got the antenna up for 160m it was time to get an amp working on the band. Me and SM3JLA converted the amp last weekend and got it working just fine on 160m. We added a bit extra C and L in the pi-filter. The input board was already prepared for usage on 160m so even though we don’t have 1:1 in input SWR it’s well below 3:1 so the tuner in the radio handles it just fine. This might be fixed in the future though.

Here are some pictures of the mod