Another Spectra in the ham band

walt10 · Post by **walt10** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 10:07 pm

I got another Spectra off ebay. It turned out to have 10 conventional channels. When you add the T/A it turns out to be 20 channels. I have not tried to force another plug into it ,yet. The VCO moved down just fine. The programming was a B#*@H... I sure hope an easier way comes out soon. I still think that the spectra has the best receiver at 927.
Walt

walt10 · Post by **walt10** » Sat Dec 08, 2001 7:11 pm

Sucsess!! I just stuffed the code plug from my 128 channel spectra into this latest 10 channel radio. It to now has 128 channels. I wish that I could do this to the other radio that I have but its ver of software is only a 1.6 ,I tried!
Walt

walt10 · Post by **walt10** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 10:25 am

Hi: Well after the last success, I got another spectra from ebay. I now see that the Lady has 5 more of them. The one that I got had v6.xx software. If anyone is interested here is here listing.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dl ... 1309333923

73 Walt

jmr061 · Post by **jmr061** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 5:52 pm

CAN SOMEONE PUT A PICTURE UP OF THE MODIFICATION THEY HAVE DONE TO GET THEIR 900 MHZ SPECTRA TO WORK IN THE HAM BAND. PLEASE. I HAVE TRIED IT WITH TWO AND THEY DON'T WORK.

JASON

walt10 · Post by **walt10** » Thu Dec 13, 2001 10:00 pm

I have two more spectras on the way. When they get here I will take some pictures and post them here showing where to put the resistor to get the vco to move into the ham band. They should be here next week.
Walt

walt10 · Post by **walt10** » Wed Dec 19, 2001 10:36 pm

Well the latest two spectras came in today. One for me and one for another ham at work. They were very dirty but they seemed to be working. They were D37KGA5JB5FK 10 ch radios. I cloned them with my 128 ch FK radio. Installed a 120K resistor on each VCO and had them on the air in about an hour. It took longer to fix the speaker wires and clean them! I took pictures if I can figure how to post them. Or for now you can email me and I will send them.
Walt