sounds like a workable plan for lots of the toneless radios.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>I know someone who put one in the base of a deskmic and even had it powered
> by the 8 volts coming off the radio and it worked but that took a little
> work.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Danny Dyer" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 12:09 AM
> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>
>
>>I wonder if you could take something like one of those Comspec tunable PL
>> boards, what is the nomenclature, T E32 or T E64 or something similar,
>> wonder if you could find a way to patch one of those into a radio like
>> that,
>> say somewhere in the audio chain, in order to bring up a repeater. I
>> Know,
>> cobbled together mess maybe, but maybe it'd work? Am I gonna try it?
>> Probably not, but somebody probably already has with "your mileage may
>> varry
>> results."
>> *Yeah, I know, it's been a long day and a kind of long week, and a
>> project
>> like that would probably make it considerably longer, so I am going to
>> bed.
>> 73, dd.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 5:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>
>>
>>> The 440 has a place for a PL board in the bottom cover but the one meant
>>> for
>>> it is dip switch controlled so once you set a tone, that's that you have
>>> to
>>> pull it apart to change it.
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "colin McDonald" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 3:56 PM
>>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>>
>>>
>>>> it's not so much that it won't work, it's the plug and play aspect.
>>>> The
>>>> 440
>>>> probably has a slot or port that the board goes into, or a specialized
>>>> multi-pin connecter that has to be used.
>>>> It would have to be modified to go into the ts440.
>>>> Beyond that, it should work fine.
>>>> the other thing is, does the ts440 have front panel control of the tone
>>>> board? if so, then it might require the TU-8 to produce any tones.
>>>> Could
>>>> be
>>>> a pretty specialized part.
>>>> I used to have an old commercial standard GX3000 with an after market
>>>> tone
>>>> board installed. Apparently that tone board is worth it's weight in
>>>> gold...I learned that after I threw the radio out lol. No dip switches
>>>> needed to be set, it just worked with whatever tone was programmed into
>>>> the
>>>> EProm.
>>>> I payed $30 for the radio on ebay, had a nice friendly ham operater in
>>>> ontario program a new EProm with all my frequencies in it, and used it
>>>> as
>>>> my
>>>> first ham rig.
>>>> After throwing the radio away, I found out the tone board sold for
>>>> upwards
>>>> of $100 on ebay because they were very difficult to get for that
>>>> particular
>>>> radio, and it seems to be a very common radio used by ham operators.
>>>> The
>>>> GX3000 apparently is plentiful, out of older fleet companies that used
>>>> standard VHF frequencies. If one could obtain the EProm programmer,
>>>> the
>>>> radio is a good solid mobile radio. allot of them were converted for
>>>> repeater use. Great ears, and could transmit on 30W all day long.
>>>> The stock microphone was also pretty cool because you could modify it
>>>> for
>>>> double the audio output. All you had to do was move a small 6pin chip
>>>> down
>>>> one position and bam, great crisp loud audio without over modulating or
>>>> distortion.
>>>> Not sure why that worked, but it seemed like a fluke.
>>>> I figured it out through pure chance. the chip just pulled out, and
>>>> when
>>>> I
>>>> went to put it back, i must have put it back in wrong so that two of
>>>> the
>>>> pins weren't in the connecter.
>>>>
>>>> 73
>>>> Colin, V A6BKX
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:34 AM
>>>> Subject: Re: the midland board won't work
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Really?
>>>>> Isn't 67Hz 67Hz no matter how it's generated? Maybe their is an
>>>>> output
>>>>> level difference?
>>>>> Enquiring minds want to know.
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