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- Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
- From: bryan@edgar.mn.org (Bryan Halvorson)
- Subject: Re: W2A receiver modification
- Message-ID: <1993May02.043741.25872@edgar.mn.org>
- Reply-To: bryan@edgar.mn.org
- Organization: Electronics 101. Apple Valley MN
- References: <C6D39G.2Ln@news.iastate.edu> <1993May1.155436.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>
- Date: Sun, 02 May 1993 04:37:41 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- In article <1993May1.155436.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> u95_dgold@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:
- > I've heard of a mod to increase the UHF out of band receive sensitivity of the
- > W2A. Could anyone please send me or post more information about this.
-
- I've got a diagram that shows how to do it but it's not real good at
- labeling pin numbers so I'll try to describe it.
-
- One word of warning. The parts involved here are surface mount and are
- very tiny. It's very easy to screw something up and loose UHF receive.
-
- You need to open up the the UHF unit inside the radio and look at the
- component side of the board.
-
- Q7 is a 5 pin surface mount IC that is near the edge of the board, about
- a half an inch from the URF unit. There are 2 pins on the side nearest
- the URF unit. You must lift the one nearest the edge of the board. Most
- of the people that I know who've tried this have broken off the IC leg
- or lifted the pad from the circuit board.
-
- I don't see Q7 in the schematic, I think it's D7 in there.
-
- Q3 is a surface mount transistor thats near the center of the board
- about three quarters of an inch from the URF unit.
-
- Once you've lifted the pin on Q7 you attach the cathode end of a 1N34
- diode to it. The anode end of the diode goes to the pin on Q3 that only
- has one pin on that side.
-
- It sounds easy but Q7 is in a very tight corner. Here's an attempt at
- diagramming the locations. The "<-" mark where the connections should
- be.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
-
-
-
- Q3
- _
- ___ |_|<-
- |L1 |
- ----------- |___| ----------------
- | |
- VCO | Q7 |
- UNIT | _ | URF unit
- | | | |
- | | | |
- ----------- |_|<- ----------------
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
-
- --
- Bryan Halvorson bryan@edgar.mn.org
- N0BUU bryan@n0buu.tcman.ampr.org
-