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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