Damn those pics are better than my vision LOL Now who has the guts to cut those wires W1 and W2 to see what happens? Channels?? Clairfier corse and fine unlock?? Has to have something to do with that part of the board
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Uniden 980 SSB
- Thread starter Mudfoot
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Good eye Tucker, I thought the same thing and I had a close look at W1 and W2 when I had the radio open. Two jumper wires sitting so obvious like that did stick out but after looking closely at the traces I don't think cutting them would do anything to change the frequencies.
I could be wrong but I doubt Uniden would allow it to be that easy, FCC would be all over them.
I could be wrong but I doubt Uniden would allow it to be that easy, FCC would be all over them.
Aw come on give it a try, worse case you just solder them back together. I'm sure it won't blow anything up just might be the ticket for the mods
Several old SSB rigs had wires or resistors to snip to give added capabilities.... AR-3500, TS5010, Yaesu FT747 come to mind! Then a reset of the CPU and! **Jump_im**
Yes sir! W1 and W2 look mighty intriguing!
73 mechanic
Next week I order mine! :w00t:
Yes sir! W1 and W2 look mighty intriguing!
73 mechanic
Next week I order mine! :w00t:
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Wondering if the MOSFET output transistor in this radio has the same requirements as an IRF-520 or an ERF-2030. That could give this radio a nice kick in the pants!
You might be able to implement an IRF520, but 2 of the pins have to be swapped... without looking at my notes, I think it's the gate and the drain that are swapped. BTW, that Mitsubishi final they use in those 980's are the infamous "driver" mosfets that was used in the Cobra 200's that kept failing. Should be interesting to see how reliable those Mitsu mosfets will be in these 980's.
~Cheers~
~Cheers~
If it is Doug at Custom CB will be the first to do it. Here is a quote from his web site.
"We all know there have been tons of postings about the RFX-75 not working and sounding bad but I have not had that problem here and since I was one of the first to start using and installing them on radios and have installed hundreds (yes hundreds) of them and had only 2 fail (both were SWR problems) some people are not installing them right."
"Remember we were the first...
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I may be a little slow but some would say it's worth the wait to get a radio that WILL talk and hear like it should..
Thanks again for all your support,
CB Repairman"
Just got a radio back from him, 3 weekd total turnaround time.
Ahhh, I will dispute that claim, FG Best was putting 2290`s in the 99V and 88`s years ago, there used to be pictures here on the Old Forum long before we moved over the new server.
Might want to change that one.
I am sure there are other old members here that will remember that.
In fact there were pictures of a Hacked up 99 with a 2290 in and and FG best posted the correct way to do it.
They were also doing MOSFET front end mods on the RCI radios long ago.... Bill Good was the guy that came up with that one...
73
Jeff