On Thu, 12 May 2005 18:34:49 -0400, John Popelish
wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the info. The problem with these 455 ceramic filters is
that they are also in the Kenwood's transmit chain. If I was just
dealing with a receiver, it would be much easier to do. For receive
only I could just solder a 20pf capacitor across where the filter goes
to test things.


If you can cobble a way to patch in the Murata CSBLA455KEC8-B0, just
to see if the rest of the radio works, Digikey sells them for less
than a dollar.

The specs are on page 41 of this catalog:
http://www.murata.com/catalog/p17e14.pdf