LA2YUA – RF and related projects

I dug out the old Mac IIfx from storage and had some fun getting A/UX running on it. I had some issues, so I decided to document them and collect some links etc.

Some viewers may have noted some 7-segment clocks in the background of some pictures in prior entries. I decided to update this system for the 2020 holiday season, and built 10 new clocks to replace 3 old ones.

This article is about modifying the HP 3456A voltmeter for 50 Hz operation.

I bought a used Icron USB Ranger 2212, and took a look at how they implemented the Cat5 extender.

In this article I'll briefly talk about my newest Mini-Whip antenna project, designed primarily to cover the lower bands.

Around the same time that I bought the USB 2.0 extender featured previously I bought some cheap remote units for the 3022 USB 3.0 (5 Gbit⁄s) system.

My thought was that maybe these were identical like the USB 2.0 extender.

From the looks of it I was wrong there and will need to find a LEX to use it, but it was still interesting.

I bought an Icron USB fiber optic extender, and had a look inside.

A collection of various info and thoughts about the Orion radio system, also sold under GE and M/Acom brandings.

Quick post with some information on MX1000/2000 programming that I wasn't easily able to find myself.

I bought some more 58534A-H01 receivers and found that these receivers were of the older type I had seen low resolution pictures of before.

On a whim I bought some pole mount GPS receivers. 

Being unable to find any real details on what's inside I mostly bought them blind, so I took some photos of the insides to help others out.

I bought a chinese made 3-cavity bandpass filter and decided to measure it and compare it to some home-made modified duplexer filters.

Updated: VHF information below

The Spectracom Epsilon Clock EC2S and similar devices are fairly high end GPS clocks/timing receivers.

I've spent a few days with one and I wrote a utility to program the device that is available for download.

A Procom VHF cavity band-pass filter was donated to the shack, and some work was done to retune it to 145 MHz.

I bought some Ascom SE-140s and figured out how to program them without buying a 386 computer and floppy disks.

I picked up a 18 year MiniDisc recorder and restored it a bit, and added some optical I/O to it.

I bricked my DCX2496 while updating the firmware, but I got it back.

I modified my IC-775DSP with backlighting and thought you might want to as well.

I looked in to modifying the IC-V200T for use with modern repeaters with 2.5 kHz deviation.

I looked in to modifying the IC-H16T for use with modern repeaters with 2.5 kHz deviation.

In this article I desribe how you can upgrade your H16T to use the Super-150 custom firmware developed for Icom V200T LMR radios. Be warned that some hardware modding and EPROM programming is required.

I've designed a 3D printable solution for rack mounting Lucent RFTG-u receivers on cheap 2U shelves.

To support my pile of Icom IC-H16Ts I decided to upgrade my original Ni-Cd packs to newer cells.

Recently we became aware of a failure in one of our VHF repeaters, users claimed the output power was significantly worse while the sensitivity was the same.

In the interest of public service and guarding against future failures, I pulled the EPROMs from my Wavetek/Schlumberger Stabilock 4015 Service Monitor, and Fluke 6060B RF generator.