If you are all referring to the board I have as a midland board, I think it 
ain't.  I bought it to use in my midland but I have no idea who manufactured 
it.  Perhaps I'll have someone look at the paperwork.  Then I'll (maybe) 
know what I'm talking about.

The Other Howard, WA9RYF
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 4:29 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.