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- This file is meant to replace the old PRO-43 mod file. 17.12.92
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- From: armille@afterlife.ncsc.mil (A. Ray Miller)
- Summary: cellular (870-890 MHz) and low band (51-88 MHz) restoration for PRO-43
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- A few people have mentioned the cellular mod for the PRO-43; it turns out
- you should not remove but MOVE the diode. Doing so allows cellular coverage as
- well as low band (up to 88 MHz) coverage.
-
- Acknowledgments to Grove Enterprises; this information came from them.
- They are selling the PRO-43 for $300 which is $50 less than Radio Shack.
- I have no connection with them other than as a satisfied customer.
-
- PRO-43
- Cellular Frequency Restoration and Low Band Expansion
-
- Note: It is not lawful to monitor cellular or conventional mobile telephone
- conversations.
-
- The following procedure requires familiarity with microcircuit soldering and
- will violate your warranty. Grove Enterprises assumes no liability resulting
- from its attempt, nor will accept the modified scanner for return under any
- condition.
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- TOOLS NEEDED: Fine point, low power soldering pencil; solder wick or a
- desoldering tool; pointed awl, hemostats or pointed tweezers; small Philips
- screwdriver; solder.
-
- 1) Remove the battery, antenna and back cover (held in place by four screws).
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- 2) Remove the six screws holding the top circuit board in place. Carefully
- unsolder the two antenna connections from the board. Bend the antenna ground
- tab fully up from the board. Carefully lift the board, unplugging the black
- connector at its base, and lay the board out of the way on its bundle of
- colored wires.
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- 3) Remove the two screws from the next board and lift it, carefully unplugging
- the white connector at the bottom of the board. Lift it up and lay it aside on
- its brown wire (which can be unplugged if necessary).
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- 4) Unsolder and remove the metal shield from the final board, revealing the
- microprocessor; note the row of diodes labeled D1-D5 above it. Only diodes
- D1, D2, and D4 are present; assisted by a pointed tool, unsolder and remove D4,
- the lone diode (this restores cellular frequencies which will be searched in 30
- kHz steps).
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- 5) Resolder the removed diode carefully into position D3 to extend low band
- coverage to 88 MHz.
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- 6) Reassemble the boards, paying particular attention to the alignment of the
- plugs. Test the radio by entering any frequency between 870 and 890 MHz
- (cellular) and 51-88 MHz (low band).
- --
-
- A. Ray Miller
- arm@super.org | armille@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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- From: ross@novax.llnl.gov
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:51:08 GMT
-
- Here is my keypad beep delete mod for the RPO-43:
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- 1. Remove battery.
- 2. Remove back cover (4 screws).
- 3. Remove top board (6 screws, desolder two antenna connections and bend
- antenna ground lead up out of the way). Be careful of black connector at
- bottom of board. Flip board over and lay aside (wire connectors need not be
- disconnected).
- 4. Remove middle board (remove 2 screws and wire connector). Be careful of two
- multi-pin connectors along underside of board. Set middle board aside.
- 5. Locate 10 pin connector on side of bottom board (labeled CN3). Note that one
- end of connector has pin 10 labeled as such. Count back to pin 6 and bend
- pin 6 ninety degrees towards the large RF shield. Make sure the bent pin
- clears the RF shield.
- 6. Reassemble and your done OR do the cell mod since you are so close.
-
- Have fun. Gary Ross >usual disclaimer>
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- Subject: Improved audio for the PRO-43 portable scanner
- From: parnass@cbnewse.cb.att.com (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 01:15:35 GMT
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- IMPROVED AUDIO FOR THE PRO-43 SCANNER
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- by Bob Parnass, AJ9S
-
- The Radio Shack PRO-43 scanner audio is too bassy.1 The
- lack of treble makes it difficult to hear the PRO-43 in
- noisy situations, especially while listening in a car
- or truck. Louis Shirley sent me a schematic and sug-
- gested I remove C341, a tiny 0.015 ufd surface mount
- capacitor.
-
- I'm glad to report that removing C341 made a great
- improvement. The audio is now much "crisper," more
- like the Uniden 200xlt, although still not quite as
- loud. Turning the volume control up still overloads
- the PRO-43's small, internal speaker, but there's less
- need to do that once C341 is removed.
-
- The PRO-43 contains 3 printed circuit boards, and the
- middle (second) board contains the audio circuitry.
- Finding C341 is difficult, as it is neither marked with
- a value nor a component designation. It is located on
- the foil side of the middle board, under IC304, an
- LM386 amplifier IC. C341 is in parallel with, and phy-
- sically next to, R350 (33,000 ohm). R350 is slightly
- larger than C341 and is marked 333. Both R350 and C341
- are connected between pin 2 of the LM386 and ground.
-
- A Note About 50-88 MHz Reception
-
- Now that I have a schematic, I see that the European
- version of the PRO-43 has different coils and capaci-
- tors in the low (mid) band front end filter. That
- explains why the 75 MHz sensitivity isn't stellar after
- adding diode D3 to enable 30-88 MHz coverage.
-
- __________
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- 1. See "PRO-43 Product Review," by Bob Parnass, AJ9S, in
- the November 1992 RCMA Journal.
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- Bob Parnass, AJ9S - AT&T Bell Labs - parnass@ihlpm.att.com - (708)979-5414
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- Compiled for garfield.catt.ncsu.edu by:
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- Brad Steinman
- University of Toledo Computer Services
- cscon0151@uoft02.utoledo.edu
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- Copied from the QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM
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