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Re: Vertical antennas
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Butch Bussen <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 16:46:13 -0700
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THat doesn't surprise me.  You've got to have some fairly good skills to 
work in radios these days, particularly surface mount stuff.  You've got 
parts the size of a pin head.  We ran into that working on my repeater 
trying to remove a bad pot and would up with a bunch of very very small 
parts disappearing.  So here we are trying to replace surface mount 
stuff with eighth watt resisters and small caps.  We did get it working 
though, but it isn't pretty!!!
73
Butch Bussen
wa0vjr
open Node 3148
Las Vegas


On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Tom Brennan wrote:

> Yeah, Butch.  Think about that "factory mod" is that you have to purchase the
> module from some Kenwood dealer as the company won't sell them to individuals
> and then you have to send the radio and module to Kenwood for the modification.
> They refuse to let out exactly how its done and its a pretty complicated set of
> wiring that comes with the module.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
>

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