The canned oscillator is now terminated in a 1kohm trimmer and feeds the IF port of the mixer. RF from the HF transmitter goes to the LO port. Trimmers will most probably be replaced with fixed resistors.
As a signal generator I used the FT-817 at 24.9 MHz. Listening on a panoramic receiver I could clearly hear LO-HF (20 MHz) and LO+HF (69.8 MHz). The frequency counter on the mixer output picked up the LO-HF difference, which was expected since there is no bandpass filtering afterwards.
I tried swapping HF and LO signals but the result was the same. Signal output decreases if the HF trimmer reduces the mixer drive.
Next step is to build a resonating termination followed by an amplifying buffer. G3XBM circuit calls for a BF199, which is already sitting on the workbench, committed to take part into this project.
