Opinions....Willco memory for R71A
 

According to John Albert
, the company that made the chips are no
longer in business and therefore Willco can only assure availability of the
memory board until next year.
They seem like a good investment. Any opinions appreciated.

Hi,
very strange indeed, there is nothing about that on their website. If it's
true, it's a pity because it's a very good company with first class
technicians.
Anyway the memory board for R71A is just splendid. I've got a problem when
installing it because there were a lot of bugs. I have de-soldered the
battery to empty the memories and soldered it again and ... that was it !
Was it because I have the E (european) version of the R71 ? I don't know.
Anyway, apart from this problem at the beginning, it works marvellous and
I recommend it indeed !

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D. KREMP
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justtis wrote:
According to John Albert
, the company that made the chips
are no longer in business and therefore Willco can only assure
availability of the memory board until next year.
They seem like a good investment. Any opinions appreciated.

It's true.
DK writes:
"DK" wrote in message
...
Hi, very strange indeed, there is nothing about that on their website. If
it's true, it's a pity because it's a very good company with first class
technicians.
Exert from Willco reply:
We have enough parts to last until next year.
Jack
Willco

Justtis wrote:
One more question, Will they be available until the late fall of 2004.
Thanks again

----- Original Message -----
From: JOHN ALBERT
To: Justtis
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: R 71A memory upgrade question

It's your option if you want to install the ribbon cable or not.
Thr ICM-1024 comes
with a rubbon cable that you can unplug. The menory board mates
with the pins on the
radio's CPU board. If you don't care about increasing the memories
on your radio, Just
plug it in and don't wire up the ribbon cable. If your installing
the ICM-1024 in an R-71
receiver, jumpers aren't needed. The jumper is just a small peice
of bare wire soldered
to two pads.
Jack
Willco
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http://www.willcoele.com/ They do mention that their Eprom's are no longer
manufactured. 'Can't gaurantee for how long or quantity.
.."justtis" wrote in message
...
It's true.
DK writes:
"DK" wrote in message
...
Hi, very strange indeed, there is nothing about that on their website.
If
it's true, it's a pity because it's a very good company with first class
technicians.

OK justtis, I apologize, the next time I'll be more cautious when reading !
It's a bit strange their EPROMS are so specific. I thought a common C-MOS
EPROM would do it.
Does anybody know more about that ?
D.K.



justtis wrote:
http://www.willcoele.com/ They do mention that their Eprom's are no
longer manufactured. 'Can't gaurantee for how long or quantity.
."justtis" wrote in message
...
It's true.
DK writes:
"DK" wrote in message
...
Hi, very strange indeed, there is nothing about that on their
website.
If
it's true, it's a pity because it's a very good company with first
class technicians.