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- Hello! I've had this mod for the 510T for awhile now and noticed that it was
- not on the server, so I thought that I'd type it up. I think that it's the
- same mod that can be done on the 110T, but just for re-assurance here I go:
-
- Old frequency range: Ham Bands only.
-
- New frequency range: 130.000 -> 169.995
- 340.000 -> 379.990 (!) Weird!
- 420.000 -> 469.975
- 870.000 -> 889.995 (!!!) Wow! This is surprising.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER: This is pretty easy to do, but if you haven't opened a radio up
- ever you might want to have someone else do it. It worked for me.
-
- ===Following is the exact mod, with my comments in []'s.===
-
-
- 1. Open the top cover of your radio
-
- 2. On the left hand side in very front of the radio where bezel neet
- front of chassie. [Obviously they did not use a spell-checker!]
-
- 3. There is a yellow wire looped arround a blue condenser. [Capacitor]
-
- 4. Clip the wire and [I removed it, if you leave there be sure to tape
- the ends so nothing shorts when the radio is bounced around.]
-
- 5. Put the radio in reset mode. [See comment first below!]
-
- Press and hold the F and the VFO/M key at the same time and turn off
- the POWER SWITCH and then turn on the POWER SWITCH again.
- [You will lose all of your memories. Write them down first.]
-
-
- That's it. I could have cleaned up their text a bit--I know. But, I
- wanted it to remain in it's original form so I wouldn't accidentaly change
- the meaning.
-
- OK, you probably know this already but just in case:
- The radio will also TX out of band BUT is not type accepted for that
- purpose. Even if you are authorized to transmit on GMRS (for example) it
- is *NOT* legal! In this case I would get a commercial radio which can
- legally transmit on the ham bands as well.
-
- '73 and good luck! Randy, WK9M rkruszka@carroll1.cc.edu
-