With the increasing use of the general publics communication systems such as Cellular, PCS, WLAN, Blue Tooth, and the future use of the ISM bands, amateur band microwave transverters that were designed 5 years ago will soon, if not already, become inadequate. Caused by the increased RF density surrounding and sharing our amateur bands, transverter designs that provided weak signal sensitivity without strong signal immunity or selectivity will soon be of little use to the Microwave enthusiast. This paper will review new design criterion such as specifications and components that are now available that will be required to produce a simple state of the art microwave transverter. This paper will also demonstrate the procedure of developing this microwave transverter that will survive todays higher density RF environments from concept to finished product, white still producing ft economically. The presentation of this paper will discuss all of the above mentioned aspects and include the manufacturing phases of the project.
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