Projects status

Here is a status of the projects I’ve been working on: MFJ-929 Auto Tuner: done Got this one a few years ago and it ended up on a corner. One IC seemed dead, a 5V reg was cooking, and the PIC16 too. Replaced the three, reprogrammed a new PIC16, and the unit seems to work
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Flashing an H200i(ntegrated) in IT mode

I have got the archive from https://samourai47.com/?p=133, created the boot key with freedos as explained, and did the following: (Note: you will have a BIOS legacy with mptsas2.rom, no UEFI apparently, but I don’t uses UEFI on the servers so I can’t tell if any issue) You can avoid flashing mptsas2.rom if you don’t plan
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Summary: 2018 – Aug 2020

First thanks for all the patrons, some money seems to have been left over by Patreon and ended up making around ~150EUR, which I spent on a headbump for a second-hand 13MHz RACAL-DANA Programmable Frequency Generator last year. I wanted one for a long time to help doing repair on radio equipment, and my first
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Elka Concorde 405 – Restoration project – 2018

Hello, As you can see in the picture, I now own this… thing. It is in poor condition, first because it’s “for parts”, old, and UPS dropped it on the ground because they are a really nice delivery service. The Elka makes sound, most of the LEDS doesn’t works, some (4-5) keys doesn’t works, two
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