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Old 11th Sep 2017, 7:53 pm   #21
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Default Re: Memories and other stories from Pye etc PMR engineers.

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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki View Post
There was a brief bit of potential amateur interest in (Band III MX295s)
There was a conversion for the MX295 from Band III to 2m published in one of the amateur magazines during the 90s, but, while the receiver mod (which wasn't just a retune and involved increasing the number of turns on receiver front end coils) worked really well, the transmitter modification as published proved very difficult to get working reliably.

The two or three I tried converting verbatim were really unstable and I eventually stopped trying to move them to 2m and just bought them for spares common to all MX series radios, plus their interesting TSM30D control boards.

The guy I worked with at the time was a rail fanatic / trainspotter extraordinare so I programmed one of my 295s up with BR band III frequencies of his choice and fitted a basic channel selector so he could listen around to his heart's content.
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