Attn Jonsey re PCS4000 mem battery
 

Jonesy,
Ref replaceing the built in nicad in the PCS4000 to retain the mem
chnls. I would never be able to find that small ni-cad type cell,
so instead I removed the strange 3 stack and routed two wires externally
to a standard lion wireless ph battery. They are kinda expensive at
about $19 at walmart, but the idead worked out great. The lion
will probably last a lot longer than any form of NI-cAD anyway.
Its 3 cells about size of a 3 AA batteries with little white clip
on them. Made sure I got all the +'s and -'s wired correctly.
Now it holds the memory like as if it was brand new. One more thing
however. You said to do a wide spread offset like
142.150 (up) and 143.450 (down) on the AFMARS voice repeater I am still
working on that. You said put the up fqcy in A chnl slot 1 and the
down freqcy in B chnl slot 1 then switch to A-B to get the proper
spred. Correct me if I am wrong.
Joe (aka kilroy)
email is valid so can email aidred if you wish.


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On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:03:31 -1000, Joseph Fenn wrote:
Jonesy,
Ref replaceing the built in nicad in the PCS4000 to retain the mem
chnls. I would never be able to find that small ni-cad type cell,
so instead I removed the strange 3 stack and routed two wires externally
to a standard lion wireless ph battery. They are kinda expensive at
about $19 at walmart, but the idead worked out great. The lion
will probably last a lot longer than any form of NI-cAD anyway.
Its 3 cells about size of a 3 AA batteries with little white clip
on them. Made sure I got all the +'s and -'s wired correctly.
Now it holds the memory like as if it was brand new.

I'm glad you worked out a solution.

One more thing
however. You said to do a wide spread offset like
142.150 (up) and 143.450 (down) on the AFMARS voice repeater I am still
working on that. You said put the up fqcy in A chnl slot 1 and the
down freqcy in B chnl slot 1 then switch to A-B to get the proper
spred. Correct me if I am wrong.

OK, correction: It was not me that mentioned that.
I never had a need for non-600 kcs splits.
73
Jonesy
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Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux
Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | OS/2 __
38.24N 104.55W | config.com | DM78rf | SK

************************************************** ********
* Ham KH6JF AARS/MARS ABM6JF QCWA WW2 VET WD RADIO SYSTEM*
* Army MARS PRECEDED by AARS (Army Amateur Radio System) *
* Hi State ARMY MARS COORDINATOR *
************************************************** ********


On Sat, 17 Jul 2005, Allodoxaphobia wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:03:31 -1000, Joseph Fenn wrote:
Jonesy,
Ref replaceing the built in nicad in the PCS4000 to retain the mem
chnls. I would never be able to find that small ni-cad type cell,
so instead I removed the strange 3 stack and routed two wires externally
to a standard lion wireless ph battery. They are kinda expensive at
about $19 at walmart, but the idead worked out great. The lion
will probably last a lot longer than any form of NI-cAD anyway.
Its 3 cells about size of a 3 AA batteries with little white clip
on them. Made sure I got all the +'s and -'s wired correctly.
Now it holds the memory like as if it was brand new.

I'm glad you worked out a solution.

One more thing
however. You said to do a wide spread offset like
142.150 (up) and 143.450 (down) on the AFMARS voice repeater I am still
working on that. You said put the up fqcy in A chnl slot 1 and the
down freqcy in B chnl slot 1 then switch to A-B to get the proper
spred. Correct me if I am wrong.

OK, correction: It was not me that mentioned that.
I never had a need for non-600 kcs splits.
73
Jonesy
--
Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux
Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | OS/2 __
38.24N 104.55W | config.com | DM78rf | SK

Hmmmm thot it was you but guess not. Anyhow seems reasonable
that on odd splits you would use both a and b groups otherwise
can see no other way to do odd splits which are quite common on
MARS systems.
Joe