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Bob Parnass published a mod for the PRO-43
years ago that provided a significant boost to the high-frequency response of the audio amp. A lot of scanners' audio is too bassy. To get decent volume, you have to turn it up and then the excess bass overloads the amp. By boosting the highs, you don't need to use as high of a setting to get the same perceived volume. What the mod did was to remove a bypass cap from the input of the audio amp chip, thereby letting the amp chip amplify the high frequencies that would never normally make it through to the speaker. If you can find the amp chip in your scanner, do a google search for the chip number. Get the pinouts. Look for a bypass cap on the input of the audio amp chip and remove it. The cap is usually a .015 to .001 mfd 0603 size surface mount part. I've done this mod on many scanners, and the volume is usually satisfactory afterward. Good Luck (All credit for this mod goes to Mr. Parnass!) |
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