The 136kHz signal is filtered by a very narrow 2-stage FET preselector using "Q-multiplication" (feedback to increase the Q factor). Its bandwidth is less than 200Hz. The preselector-frequency has to be adjusted by a 2-chamber variable capactor which can be found in old AM radios. This makes tuning a bit "tricky" because you have to rotate the preselector knob together with the VFO of the SW transceiver to hear anything at all. ( The schematics of this important part are also available as EAGLE-file now).

The transverter uses a 10.000Mhz-LO with a cheap crystal, a Schottky ring mixer, a driver, and a double push-pull final amplifier with four matched (!) IRF540 MOSFETs operated at 13 Volts DC . The final stage has an SWR-protection using an SWR-bridge which is also used to display the SWR (Fwd+Rev) on the front panel. This makes the PA virtually "undestructable" by load mismatch. The output power drops below 10 watts if the load is not purely resistive 50 Ohms. Because this is a linear transverter, the output power can be controlled by changing the output power of the HF-transceiver.
A critical part is the final's step-up transformer which must have an extremely low stray-inductance. The ferrite pot-core can bee seen in the center of the photo below. The small white toroid on the right is just a primary transformer that divides 1 watt from the driver stage for the four MOSFETs.

A PI-network is at the lower side of the final board. A part of the large Amidon T200-2 powdered-iron toroid can be seen. 50 turns of enameled wire give about 30 uH. Two Wima "FKP" capacitors (47nF each) together with the 30uH-Inductor are used in a PI-filter which also transforms 13.5 Ohms from the large pot-core-transformer into 50 Ohms for the output. The efficiency of the final stage is only about 70 percent as long as it remains a real "linear", but that doesn't hurt at the transverter's maximum output.

If there will be more time, I will convert some of the circuit diagrams from my ugly hand-drawn sketches into EAGLE drawing which you may find here in future.

To match the transverter's output to the antenna, I use a loading coil that looks a bit like an old tesla coil with a few turns of "primary" coil and many more turns of "secondary" coil.

This allows the separation of the "antenna ground" from the "mains ground" which is essential when the AC (mains) ground is disturbed with broadband noise from a nearby TV set and other QRM sources like computers or fluorescent lamps. I sometimes connect the AC mains ground to the antenna ground because the antenna's radial system is really lousy (though it worked good enough for a contact with GM3YXM/p - tnx Dave!). Reception is much better without connecting the AC ground to the antenna ground You may try this yourself if you don't have an extra RX antenna like a "magnetic" loop).

For the crazy (and now outdated) power-limit in DL, a tiny alligator clip (like the green one on the photo) is was ok to select the proper tap on the primary and on the secondary coil of the antenna tuner. The coil is no variometer (yet..), a small parallel capacitor is enough to do the "fine" tuning at this power level.
A high-power-unit like most G stations use would melt this setup in a few seconds !
The neon-bulb at the top of the coil helps to tune the antenna. Only one electrode is connected to the hot end of the coil.

The black "wireman"-feeder line carries the moderate LF-current and -voltage out to the 200m-longwire antenna and the ugly ground system which consists of a rotten metal fence and a few meters of buried wire. The 200m-LW-antenna is held by the light-masts of a football-field where DF0WD is located. The EIRP of that antenna may be in the range of 80 milliwatts (based on a measurement by Dick, PA0SE, who measured a field strength of 10 uV/meter in a distance of 266 km)

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