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XTL5000 RX Out-of-band

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 6:55 am
by ske
Anyone know if I could program a 450-520MHz band XTL5000 out of band down to the 410-420MHz range (for RX only)?

Cheers.

Re: XTL5000 RX Out-of-band

Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 1:31 pm
by tvsjr
Can you program it? Yes, just modify the software? Will it work? Not a snowball's chance in hell...

Re: XTL5000 RX Out-of-band

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:13 am
by tvsjr
I would say that the VCO won't lock and the front-end filter won't be wide enough to pass that range without serious loss... but considering the XTL is almost all software, I'm not sure if it has a VCO or a front-end filter!
Hightower wrote:No way any XTL will go down to the 433Mhz simplex range.
My 380-470s seem to work at 433 quite nicely 8)