Bill, I believe mine was setup as tone remote/rpt as well. Don't remember any muting problems. Do you have a manual on the IDA? I think its up on this reflectors website. If not I can email you a copy (1/2 meg pdf).
I'd start at the receiver drawer first and look at what is going away on the receiver during TX PTT. The below signals are the ones that you'd want to look at first. J931-10 RX OSC CNTL J931- 17 RX MUTE J831- 18 RUS J904-1 CAS J903-1 RX F1 RXMUTE is related to PL detect, the RX OSC CNTL and F1 xtal control should be tied constant. You didn't say if this was a carrier only or channel guard unit? I have a sneaky suspicion if you have a stock GE PL decoder in the unit, its half duplex only. When you key, the pl decoder detects PTT and your CG decode goes away and then the RX unit mutes via RXMUTE. On the IDA, RXMUTE/RX1MUTE is H12 to H13 jumper, then there is the H41-H42 jumper on the GE M2 system board that ties the CG decoder boards signal back to the IDA. Once you get that figured out, the other external repeater controller mods should work for you. Drop me a direct email if you want to chat some more. Ralph W4XE -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill McLure Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 7:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station Hi Ralph, Thanks for the info that's what I have been looking for. My station has the P58 version of the controller which I believe is Tone Remote/Repeat controller. The only problem is it has been setup simplex as a tone remote base. How do I remove receiver muting on this controller and will your mod's still work with this setup? Regards, Bill... -----Original message----- From: "Ralph Hogan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:19:46 -0800 To: [email protected] Subject: [Spam] RE: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station > Hey Bill, > > I pull one of the cable connectors (j1203) plugged into the IDA and insert a > small breakout molex to molex cable to get to the rx & tx audio pathes plus > PTT to feed up to the ham controller. In this way the internal GE rptr > controller can be restored to normal and used in a pinch by removing the > breakout cable. I've documented my version of the GE Master II IDA > conversion on my website. > > http://www.qsl.net/w4xe/rpttech/rpttech21.htm > > Includes a schematic/pictorial of the external ham rptr controller wiring, a > list of IDA connector pinout descriptions and IDA board layout and pot > locations. > > 73's > Ralph W4XE > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2006 11:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Repeater-Builder] GE Mastr II Station > > > Hi! > > Does anyone have repeater conversion info on the newer style GE Mastr > II stations with the all in one controller, metering and speaker > (19B234871). I have a VHF station I wish to convert but I would like > to keep the local station controls, speaker, mic and metering. > > Thanks! > > Bill > N6YMZ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links
