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John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 2 May 2011 19:17:12 -0400
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You couldn't use it on 900 MHz anyway, uhf connectors are no good up that 
high. You'd need N connectors or something, mini UHF work up there but 
regular UHF connectors won't work up there you'll lose the whole signal just 
about at the connector.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: LDG TW2 Close-out


> the tw2 does 50MHZ or 6 meters, 144MHZ or 2 meters, 220MHZ or 1.25 meters,
> and 440 or 70 centimeters.
> I highly doubt it'll maintain any sort of accuracy outside of those
> relatively narrow bands...it might handle frequencies outside the ham 
> bands
> a few megs, but probably nothing more than that.
> The tw1 is nice because it handles frequencies right from 1.8MHZ all the 
> way
> to 54MHZ...though the accuracy on rf power and swr drops significantly on
> 6M.
> So, if the tw2 is similar, it'll probably give you fairly good readings on
> the commercial vhf/uhf bands, but not anything as high as 900MHZ or 
> 1.2GHZ.
>
> It's too bad cheapham wants almost half again as much for the meter in
> shipping to canada...it's a really good deal at $65, but they want an
> additional $25 to ship up here.
>
> 73
> Colin, V A6BKX
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kevin Minor" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 1:54 PM
> Subject: Re: LDG TW2 Close-out
>
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I am planning on buying the TW2 tomorrow when I get paid.  I do have a
>> question about it.  What's the maximum frequency that it will work with?
>> I
>> have a 900 Mhz HT and a Kenwood TS-2000X, which will transmit on the 1.2
>> gig
>> band.  I'm curious if it will work on those frequencies?
>>
>> Thanks for any information.
>>
>> Kevin Minor, Lexington, KY
>> [log in to unmask] 

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