Minitor I & II On Ham Bands

[akmotorola]

Is it possible to program eithher the Minitor I & II pagers to the 6, 2 and 70 cm ham bands? Should I expect some capacitor changes in the RF front end? Also is there any documentaion on how to configure the alignment stand/set to mount the pagers in. I recently picked us such a set and cannot figure out how to mount the board with the two wire probes and where the board with the clamp mounts to?



Thanks
-Tom / KA1NVZ

[chrismoll]

I think that it might be an "out of band" question.
I definetly saw a Minitor 3 on ebay on the 2 meter hand band, so I know its possible, its out of band programming, its probably easier to do on a crystalled minitor as it cant give you the error crap for bad frequency, just some tuning needed

[tvsjr]

All of the pagers you mention are partitioned into "sub-bands". 3/4/5s are available in ham splits, as below. 2s can be moved with some work.

Lowband
33.000 - 36.995
37.000 - 40.995
41.000 - 44.995
45.000 - 49.000

VHF
143.000 - 150.995
151.000 - 158.995
159.000 - 166.995
167.000 - 174.000

UHF
406.000 - 413.995
414.000 - 421.995
422.000 - 430.000
450.000 - 457.995
458.000 - 463.995
464.000 - 469.995
470.000 - 475.995
476.000 - 481.995
482.000 - 487.995
488.000 - 493.995
494.000 - 499.995
500.000 - 505.995
506.000 - 512.000

[n9upw]

The Minitor II's do quite well in the ham band once recrystalled. I've got a dozen or so VHF's in use right now working just fine. I even have a few Keynote's on 442 working flawlessly. Feel free to e-mail me for more info as I send mine off to a place in NY.

Derek
derek@n9upw.com