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Subject: Ham-Equip Digest V93 #95
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Ham-Equip Digest Sat, 6 Nov 93 Volume 93 : Issue 95
Today's Topics:
FT-980 on MARS?
Help find manual for scope!
Microwave wireless cable
Mod info wanted on TM-721A
Plectron - where are they now?
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Date: 6 Nov 93 04:05:57 GMT
From: ogicse!emory!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: FT-980 on MARS?
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
Rick; I'm a collector of mod files, and I have TX mod files for the
Yaesu FT-990 and FT-890, but not a FT-980, which I have never heard of.
Are you sure you have not transposed a couple of digits?
--Leigh/KM6JE.
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Date: 2 Nov 93 12:05:09 CST
From: timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!cherry10!dadams@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Help find manual for scope!
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
Among the bargains I found at the Hamfest this weekend in St. Paul MN,
was the following Oscilloscope for which I now need manuals etc:
140A Oscilloscope Hewlett Packard
I don't know the age of this beast. It is quite heavy.
It has the following modules:
1423A Time Base Hewlett Packard
1402A DC 20MCI6CMI Dual Trace Amplifier Hewlett Packard.
I don't know if it works at the moment. I still have no power chord or
test probes. Then I paid a total of $17.50, so if it never works it wasn't
too much of a loss, and if it does work I really have a nice find.
Can anyone tell me anything more about this unit? How old would it be?
How can I tell what the maximum frequency it can handle is?
Am I resigned to paying several times the price of the scope for the
test probes? (I need 2 of them.)
Does anyone know how I can find a service manual? Other manuals? Help!
---
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Sourdough and Ham KG0IO/AE | | |
| | | obten comida,
--David C. Adams dadams@cray.com | | | y sal de aqui!
Statistician \____/
Cray Research Inc. (____)
.:. .
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Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1993 22:10:32 GMT
From: mvb.saic.com!zippy.Telcom.Arizona.EDU!CS.Arizona.EDU!noao!asuvax!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!austin.onu.edu!he-04.onu.edu!SA055@network.ucsd
Subject: Microwave wireless cable
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
Does anyone out there know much about this subject? I have a lot of
questions, mostly becuase I just found out about wireless cable. I wasn't
really interested in satellite, but I know now that our area has wireless
cable, because I've seen the little dishes.(they look like satellite, but
they are just a bunch of horizontal metal pieces bent into the shape of a
dish) Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew about this technology, how
much a system is, if you need a descrambler, etc.
Thanks!
Dan
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Date: 6 Nov 93 04:12:49 GMT
From: ogicse!uwm.edu!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Mod info wanted on TM-721A
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
Gentlemen: I'm a compulsive collector of mod files, and I actually
have a file for the Kenwood 721A. I have NOT tried it! --Leigh/KM6JE.
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TM721A.14
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KENWOOD TM-721A WIDE BAND MOD
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To modify the 721, remove the top & bottom covers.
Remove the 2 screws on each side that hold the front panel to the main unit.
[You can just loosen the bottom 2 screws, 1 on each side don't actually remove
them.
Then remove the 2 screws in the top center & bottom center that hold the display
to the main unit (all silver screws, not the black ones).
Now you can swivel the panel out & down.
Look at the back of the display unit. To the left of the Microprocessor near
the lithium batttery you will see 3 chip resistors in a pattern like this:
H= chip resistor
X= blank space
--------------------> H X H H
add a jumper (or ideally a zero ohm chip resistor where the X is.
Hold the F key while turning the radio on.
The display will go from: 100 - 200 MHz on VHF
400 - 500 MHz on UHF
WARNING!!!
Remember to write all your frequencies down before you start because you
WILL lose them on both bands once you add the jumper even if you do not reset
with the F key.
RELAYED BY...N0KGX...GENE
(Question by Leigh/KM6JE: is this expanded range RX only? Or TX and RX?)
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Date: 5 Nov 93 19:47:22 GMT
From: ogicse!uwm.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!parnass@network.ucsd.edu
Subject: Plectron - where are they now?
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
I have a few dozen Plectron brand FM monitor receivers but
haven't bought anything from Plectron in 10 years.
The Plectron company has been passed around more times
than a bottle of cheap whiskey, and I've lost track of them.
Anyone know the current phone number or address of Plectron
or the company who now owns them?
They used to be located in Overton, Nebraska, but there's
no telephone listing for Plectron there anymore.
Thanks.
--
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Copyright 1993, Bob Parnass, AJ9S
AT&T Bell Laboratories - parnass@ih4gp.att.com - (708)979-5414
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Date: 5 Nov 93 15:28:02 GMT
From: ogicse!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!cs.uiuc.edu!news1.oakland.edu!vela.acs.oakland.edu!prvalko@network.ucsd.edu
To: ham-equip@ucsd.edu
References <CFzDIu.4oM@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, <1993Nov4.204630.22470@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, <CFzzpL.879@ipars.sds.com>rvalko
Subject : Re: Type Accepted ham HT's??
: So you're telling me that _my_ Motorla Saber III with 136-174 coverage, with
: the matching Motorola software allowing you to program within three
: bandsplits covering that 136-174 is illegal if I program in the HAM
: band?
NOPE. It is perfectly legal for a LICENCED amateur to use anything that
meets FCC specs in the AMAEUR RADIO SERVICE.
: Or, _my_ Motorola Spectra with 138-174 coverage and matching Motorola
: software that allows you to program anywhere within the band is also
: illegal if I program in the HAM band?
See above for LICENCED transmitting.
: What about the other Motorola radio's that offer the ability to be
: programmed into HAM bands? What about the Yaesu FTH-2070 dual-band
: commercial radio? What about the Bendix King commercial radios?
See above, above. Sheeze this is getting monotonous.
: Have I been wasting my money on commercial radio's? I use my radio's
: for public safety, business, and amateur.
: --
OH! You ARE licenced! Grab a copy of Part 97 and read the rules,
again.
:-) I'm sure your just pulling his leg, like I'm pulling yours.
73 paul wb8zjl
: Scott O'Connell - N6ZEK UUCP: {nosc, ucsd}!crash!ipars!scotto
: Spectrum Data Services ARPA: crash!ipars!scotto@nosc.mil
: Carlsbad, CA INET: scotto@ipars.sds.com
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