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- IC275
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- 29-Mar-90 01:44 EST
- Sb: IC275 Mods for FO20
- Fm: Jack Mathias - W9FMW [70275,1336]
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- PSK Transmit Audio Modification for ICOM IC275 & IC271 - Garry VK5ZK
- From AMSAT-Australia Newsletter #59 (Graham Ratcliff, VK5AGR)
-
- After reading a FUJI-OSCAR-20-PRBBS message from James, G3RUH,
- regarding the modifications he made to his Yaesu FT736 to improve the
- PSK transmit audio, I decided to investigate the situation on my ICOM
- IC275H to see if the same problem existed. I was certainly less than
- satisfied with the results I was getting in the first few days with
- FO-20 Mode JD. I was feeding the TX audio in at the front microphone
- socket and results on the uplink were quite poor but my downlink copy
- was 100%.
-
- The first change I made was to move the Tx audio to the rear
- connector, ACC1. Results improved but I was still not satisfied. Some
- scoping around the Varicap diode, D40, revealed considerable distortion
- of the PSK audio. To prove if this was the cause of my problem I
- studied the IC275 circuit to see how I could feed the TX audio in as
- close to the Varicap modulator diode, D40, as possible.
-
- In the IC275H there are several Audio feeds to D40, including 3 via
- Q33, and in my unit one of these, the feed from the Tone Squelch is
- unused. P46 normally plugs into the Tone Sq card but as this option
- is not installed it is left unterminated inside the rug. I also found
- that Pin 1 on ACC1 was unused so a shielded wire from P46, pins TSTN
- and GND to ACC1, Pins 1 and 2 would give easy access from outside the
- rig to D40 and NOT alter any of the existing functions of the IC275H.
-
- The installation of the wiring is not as easy as it sounds however:
-
- (1) You have to find a way to connect P46. I stripped a small amount
- of insulation from the wires just behind the plug housing and soldered
- the extension wire there.
- CONTINUED IN IC275.1
-