++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan Gilchrist PO Box 1337 Stirling North Sth Australia 5710 gilly@... Amateur Radio...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 16, 1998 5:23 am
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Alan Gilchrist PO Box 1337 Stirling North Sth Australia 5710 gilly@... Amateur Radio...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 17, 1998 9:29 pm
Hi to all on the reflector. Here are some links I have come across. Sites may be "very" familiar to some subscribers as they are their own pages. But for those...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 17, 1998 9:52 pm
FM900 Subscribers as at 18-11-98 aaron@... Aaron parsons chrisrs@... Christine Sweetnam gilly@... Alan Gilchrist ...
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Michael Dunn
md@xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 18, 1998 12:24 pm
[ sometime around 8:22 on 18 Nov 98, you wrote: ] ... Okay, I will, I guess... :) As we are all presumably interested in the subject, I suggest we all look at...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 18, 1998 11:36 am
one of the local guys program the eprom so you have to reverse button, the beep is gone and a few other tricks Vk3HHH...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 19, 1998 8:35 am
Michael brought up the subject of microphones. ... Another idea again not confined to FM900's but mobile radios in general is a "Hands Free" adaptor that...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 19, 1998 9:04 am
I would be very interested in the curcuit if you have it handy, sounds good, is it easy to modify the timing to say 2 minutes as our repeater has a 2 minute...
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Skinny
Skinny@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 19, 1998 11:08 am
A replacement Mic Cradle Idea 1 This Could be used On Any series On most of The CFA Radios floating Around the heads had a switch On the Side to Cut The EXT...
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Radio Communications
radiocomms@xxxxx.xxxx
Nov 19, 1998 1:21 pm
Hi all. Good Idea this mail group!! All i have done with my 900's is to buy a couple of 5 pin din plugs, short pins 1 & 3 and place some heatshrink around it...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 19, 1998 8:54 pm
Hi ....after embarrassingly forgetting that the mic needs to be in its cradle for the scan functions to work and thinking something was wrong with the rig (...
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aaron
Aaron@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 19, 1998 11:52 pm
just be careful though, doing this also stuff up the ctcss if you are using it... it disables ctcss transmit from memory... have a play, and just check, but i...
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Hamish Moffatt
hamish@xxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 12:50 am
... Wouldn't the easiest way to disable to scan inhibit be to attack the reed switch in the microphone and open or short circuit it? Perhaps not, I've never...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 1:23 am
Intermittant fault -- FM92 W1 Model Local Head I noticed from when I put it in the car it occasionally turned off by itself. Press the power on and away it...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 12:43 am
I have had a couple of replies from those interested in the hands free article I spoke about in a previous posting. The resultant scanned image is too big to...
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Hamish Moffatt
hamish@xxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 3:58 am
... If there were any LEDs on the board, they can act as photodiodes, the bright light could change the bias of the LED and switching it off would change it...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 9:10 am
The list continues to grow !!!!! Some subscribers have not registered a name either intentionally or by mistake. Either way thats fine but if you want your...
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Michael Dunn
md@xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 3:07 pm
[ sometime around 19:40 on 20 Nov 98, you wrote: ] ... Congratulations and thanks for starting this list. It was an *excellent* idea! (obviously). Regards, ...
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Michael Dunn
md@xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 3:07 pm
Hiya. :) [ sometime around 7:24 on 20 Nov 98, you wrote: ] ... Excellent idea, if you have a magnet handy... :) ... I thought that too, but couldn't find the...
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Michael Dunn
md@xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 3:07 pm
Hiya. :) Regarding "Strange fault"; if you figure it out, let us all know... (???) BTW, many of these radios suffer from many, many dry joints. Just thought...
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Alan Gilchrist
gilly@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 20, 1998 10:34 pm
Hi to All on the Reflector :- Further to my "attempted" description of my "Light Sensitive" FM92 :- It has been found that I dont even need to turn off the...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 21, 1998 12:50 am
Have you checked for little gremlins running around in it??? Very strange in deed, I had a problem with a mouse once, shine a light on it and it would not...
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Michael Dunn
md@xxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 21, 1998 9:31 am
[ sometime around 11:50 on 21 Nov 98, you wrote: ] ... All this reminds me of the days of GERMANIUM transistors. Anyone remember 'em??? They were light...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 22, 1998 12:22 am
... the mouse had 2 open opto couplers in it so the light was shining through the thin case and effecting them, I nearly through the mouse out until I realised...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 22, 1998 4:26 am
... I just had a thought about this problem, have you thought of chasing the power through, what about the regulator, this could be faulty, think about it,...
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aaron
Aaron@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 22, 1998 5:37 am
the unit he's talking about, is actually a 92 local, therefore this doesn't really co-incide with the problem he has, although it is a very good thought, and i...
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Laurie Mckay
gonz@xxxxxxx.xxx.xxx
Nov 22, 1998 6:02 am
don't they have a led dimming circuit? I don't know I have never had a local unit, I have 4 remote units, all on 2M. ... thought, ... with ... when ... eprom ...
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Skinny
Skinny@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 23, 1998 8:23 am
If you Place 2 Sets Of Rom code into a 128k rom One @ H0000 The other @ H2000 And use the jumper on the synth board to switch between them (Link421) & any...
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Skinny
Skinny@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 23, 1998 8:50 am
Does The Rom Have An Opaque Label over the Glass the rom ? It May be A bit Sensitive to light Also Some Of the Transistors May be Ageing And Can Play around...
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Skinny
Skinny@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Nov 23, 1998 8:56 am
GERMANIUM Thats the Buggers i was thinking of ill check the manual See if any Are In these units And Let you all know if some one else knows Yell Out Skinny...
