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- Subject: TNC2 Duplex Mod
- 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
-
- Copied from the QRZ! Windows Ham Radio CDROM
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