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- From: parnass@cbnewse.cb.att.com (Bob Parnass, AJ9S)
- Subject: Improved audio for the PRO-43 portable scanner
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 01:15:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec2.011535.16065@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Keywords: scanner radio, audio, modification, midband sensitivity
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- IMPROVED AUDIO FOR THE PRO-43 SCANNER
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- by Bob Parnass, AJ9S
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- 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.
-
- __________
-
- 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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- Copied from the QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM
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