Re: [Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7

2011-10-11 Thread Jim Pruitt
It has been a long time (pronounced 3 DECADES ) since I did the mod on my TR7 as well. I do remember that I did a bit more looking and found that there is a male pin sticking up from the motherboard and is the transmit inhibit line (going to Q9001 as I recall). So I put a piece of

Re: [Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7

2011-10-11 Thread Jim Shorney
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:15:10 -0700, Jim Pruitt wrote: It has been a long time (pronounced 3 DECADES ) since I did the mod on my TR7 as well. I do remember that I did a bit more looking and found that there is a male pin sticking up from the motherboard and is the transmit inhibit line (going

[Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7

2011-10-08 Thread Ron
Guys the other week someone ask about all band TX for the TR7. Found this method in my notes on the TR7. There is another mod which cuts PCB traces which I think also disables the PLL out of lock TX inhibit. I think this method saves that function. To enable the TR7 to transmit on all

Re: [Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7

2011-10-08 Thread David
] On Behalf Of Jim Shorney Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 10:12 AM To: drakelist@zerobeat.net Subject: Re: [Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7 On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 04:34:36 -0700 (PDT), Ron wrote: To enable the TR7 to transmit on all frequencies 1.5-30MHz simply unsolder the collector of Q9001

Re: [Drakelist] All band TX for the TR-7

2011-10-08 Thread Jim Shorney
There's more than one way to skin a cat. You can fake an AUX-7 by installing diode networks on the bottom of the parent board, similar to this: http://www.dproducts.be/drake_museum/rx_0-1_5_mhz.htm It can get ugly, but if you only want, for example, WARC bands or VLF receive, it's not too bad.