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- TNC2.5
-
- Hello,
- I thought I would pass along a fix for a problem that has been
- cropping up more and more across the country with packet on full duplex
- machines.
- It would appear that a lot of synthesized radios wander in transmit
- frequency when the first key up. If your located in a crowded repeater
- area there is a very good chance your keying up a repeater that might
- be within 50Khz of your transmitting frequency, on the input of repeaters.
- Especially bad is the ICOM 2AT. We have spoken with ICOM about this problem
- and they are working on it.
- There is a simple fix for folks running MFJ TNC's or TNC2 hardware
- clones. This does not include the Pac-Comm Tiny 2's or their latest
- TNC's on the market. It must be a TNC2 hardware compatible clone, such
- as the MFJ TNC's.
- The fix involves soldering a 4.7uf tantalum cap across R44 with
- the positive side towards Q8, or the junction of R44 and R45. This will
- give you around 500ms delay of audio on the XR2206 chip, while allowing
- your radio to key up immediately, without tones for 500ms. After you make
- the mod, you will need to increase your Txdelay anywhere between 10-20
- over what your using as a default now. Some experimenting with the Txdelay
- is require to get things adjusted correctly.
- Hope this mod will help users out there, and I'd appreciate a note
- back to anyone trying this and finds it fixing this problem. It has cured
- our problem in this area. You may wish to post this as a bulletin for
- users to try out and circulate it to other BBS's.
-
- 73, Steve N7HFZ @ N7HFZ
- NAPRA Technical V.P