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Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 578
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 25, 2005 - 7:20 am: | 
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Just wondering if anyone here has done the 11 meter conversion and mods to the 95T per instructions givng in CB Tricks? I have the instructions. Any problems?
Mikefromms |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 581
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 25, 2005 - 6:24 pm: |
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So no one has done this? Should be fun...
Mikefromms |
Justlou
Junior Member
Username: Justlou
Post Number: 23
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - 9:49 am: |
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Yes. It's as simple as can be. Just move the wire. |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 600
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 3:13 pm: |
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Justlow, on mine, moving the wire didn't do the trick. I did just as the instructions said. I did feel around with one end of the wire till I got channel 19 going and of course I had 40 channels but that's all. Wish I had tried the fm conversion first. But I still can't find X3 grid. I looked and looked at both sides of the board. I was getting a lot of feedback with my dm-452 mic so I wired a handheld d-104 to it and fixed that problem. Maybe I'll get all the frequencies going soon. BTW, I have a cold-heat battery powered soldering gun and it works great on boards. |
Justlou
Junior Member
Username: Justlou
Post Number: 24
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 6:48 pm: |
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I think when you "felt around with the wire until you got Ch. 19", you soldered the wire in the wrong place. I'd double check the mod diagram with what you did, and make sure it's in the right place. |
Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 164
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 9:42 pm: |
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Mike,
X3 is not the grid location,X3 is the crystal you need to replace for the fm conversion.its location is grid E-3.if you go to cb tricks and look up the drawing of the mainboard parts side layout,you will see numbers across the top and letters down the side of the board drawing.find 3 at the top,come down level with letter E and approx.where those lines intersect you will see 2 crystals.the one on the left is X2 and the one on the right is X3.hope this helped a little.
tech291
CEF#291
kc8zpj |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 602
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 10:10 pm: |
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Thank you Tech291, not thou speakest plainly and not in proverbs...just joking.
I really appreciate you taking the time to explain this.
Mikefromms |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 603
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 01, 2005 - 10:15 pm: |
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Do you have to buy another cystal or just move one to another slot?
Mikefromms |
Tech291
Moderator
Username: Tech291
Post Number: 167
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 02, 2005 - 6:14 pm: |
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Mike,
yes,for the fm mod you will have to obtain a new crystal(14.460mhz)off the top of my head couldnt tell you where to find one.
tech291
CEF#291
kc8zpj |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 605
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 02, 2005 - 6:11 pm: |
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Anybody?--see above....
Mikefromms |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 741
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 02, 2005 - 8:39 pm: |
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S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9
SORRY! that slipped, mike!
i do feel your pain, though, i hate it when things don't work as planned! keep pluggin', you'll get it! |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 606
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 03, 2005 - 11:27 pm: |
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I'm beginning to agree with you Ptazerozero. We'll get it going one day. You'd think someone here would be interested enough to explore how I could misplace a wire that is supposed to be so simple.
mikefromms
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Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1859
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 5:35 am: |
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There was a member on here that was blind and he regularly misplaced wires when soldering,he did everything by feel and he was pretty good at doing his own mods,but once in awhile everthing would go poof.I would name him but he may be offended,thinking I'm making fun of him which I'm not.Bigbob |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 607
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 11:14 am: |
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Yeah, Bigbob, I've got that concern also. Certainly don't want to fry a $400 radio. Perhaps my board is somehow different from others. It doesn't exactly look like the picture for sure. I'll leave well enough alone until I am certain as to what to do to open up the rest of the bands. I should be thankful I could getit to do 11 meters which is where I talk 99.9% of the time.
Mikefromms |
Vtwinn
Member
Username: Vtwinn
Post Number: 59
Registered: 8-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 8:06 pm: |
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Once you get it set up right you will love it , I must admit i got a little sick of the internal echo controls so I had a knob off a connex board mounted on the side ,So no more opening up the radio to adjust the echo, I will post pics of it later.
Bob |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1860
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 04, 2005 - 11:10 pm: |
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Mikefromms,why don't you e-mail tech 808 and see if you can send him a photo of your board and how you have it soldered,if it's a different board I'm sure he'll tell you,heck if it's the right board he may be able to point out the correct hole to put the wire.You see sometimes when you look at the board with varying light it can look quite different and glare from the solder can be annoying and if you're fatigued it's even worse,I speak from experience.Bigbob |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5680
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 12:02 am: |
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Bigbob,
Thank's but I doubt I could be of any help to mikefromms on it and I do not even have the schematics for one.
I have never even seen an actual 93 or 95T or even know of anyone around here who owns one.
Personally for what they cost I would of had the conversion done by copper to keep it under the galaxy factory warranty.
They are just too darn expensive to play around with if something gets messed up and voids the factory warranty.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN
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Chad
Intermediate Member
Username: Chad
Post Number: 275
Registered: 11-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 9:14 am: |
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If you smoke it doing the conversion I doubt galaxy will cover it.
Chad |
Justlou
Junior Member
Username: Justlou
Post Number: 25
Registered: 3-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:31 am: |
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It would be pretty hard to smoke the 95T converting it. You move a single wire about 1/8th of an inch.
Converting it will not void your warranty either. Mine has already been sent back to Galaxy Repair to take care of some issues that it had out of the box, that I wasn't happy with. |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5684
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 11:44 am: |
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mikefromms,
I spoke with Paul the Copper Tech and he suggested re-checking your connection point when you moved only one end of the wire and make sure it is correct.
He also mentioned you could have possibly shorted the CPU out by touching (feel around) the different traces as you mentioned in your above post.
If you would like to send it back to copper he will be happy to look at it for you and all it would cost you is the conversion fee if he is able to do the conversion.
He has never heard of this type of problem before as after the conversion you should have had coverage from 25.165 thru 28.755
However if there is a problem with the radio it will be returned to you and you will then need to return it to Galaxy for repair.
Since you broke the Warranty Seal that was placed on the radio from Copper, that Voided your Copper Warranty but not the Galaxy Warranty.
Galaxy would then have to determine what the problem is and decide if it would be repaired under their factory warranty for you.
You might try contacting Galaxy and see what they have to say.
Galaxy Radios & Texas Star Units
Consumer Electronics
243 S. Escondido Blvd. #523
Escondido, Ca. 92025
1-760-480-8800
Hope this helps,
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN
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Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 609
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 05, 2005 - 6:20 pm: |
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You can't be more fair that this.
Thanks very much.
Mikefromms |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 618
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 13, 2005 - 2:58 pm: |
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Got the 95T fully modded and the ears tuned up. It's doing it's thang...
mikefroms |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1889
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, May 14, 2005 - 2:24 pm: |
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considering where he lives and the work done and time between posts,he probably had copper do it.Bigbob |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 626
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 4:19 pm: |
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No offense to copper, but I took it to a local tech I just discovered. I'm very impatient. So, I didn't want to wait 2 weeks to get it back. Anyway, it's going now and I'm a happy customer.
mikefromms |
Iluvrf
Member
Username: Iluvrf
Post Number: 70
Registered: 2-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 6:01 pm: |
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Glad you got it going Mike. How do you like it? |
Tech808
Moderator
Username: Tech808
Post Number: 5756
Registered: 8-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 6:08 pm: |
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Mikefromms,
It was tested and working when the warranty seal was placed on it and left Copper, so I am quite sure Copper is happy that you have it fixed and working. 
Let us know how you like it.
Lon
Tech808
CEF808
N9OSN |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1906
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 9:32 pm: |
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Now you'll blow everybodies doors off.Bigbob |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1907
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, May 15, 2005 - 9:34 pm: |
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Now you can work on getting a big x-force or a sweet sixteen to match up to it and really dx.Bigbob |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 630
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 16, 2005 - 9:28 pm: |
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I'm very happy with the 95T. It is top of the line. I'm king of the hill (or at least share it) in my neck of the woods. Just bought a 80 foot tower today, too. One day the Imax will come out of the pine tree and make its home on a nice tower.
mikefromms |
Patzerozero
Advanced Member
Username: Patzerozero
Post Number: 797
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 23, 2005 - 9:54 am: |
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S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9S9!
WHOOPS!! there goes that twitchy finger again!
so what happened, mike? was your mod done incorrectly or is there something different that needs to be done now??? even us non-galaxy aficionados learn from the mistakes of others! i mean your incorrect modding, not just that you bought a galaxy!
if it works & YOU like it, then it was money well spent!!good luck!! |
Chainsawiowa
Junior Member
Username: Chainsawiowa
Post Number: 21
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 9:22 pm: |
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Hi Pat, I think Mikefromms has a Money Tree in his basement!! |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 633
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 7:15 pm: |
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It's not in the basement.
mikefromms |
Bigbob
Senior Member
Username: Bigbob
Post Number: 1928
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 8:12 pm: |
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Saves on electricity not having to use artificial sun lamps,hehe. |
Deceived1
Junior Member
Username: Deceived1
Post Number: 12
Registered: 6-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 27, 2005 - 8:02 pm: |
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home channel 27.9050 kinda close to the ham bands aren't we  |
Mikefromms
Advanced Member
Username: Mikefromms
Post Number: 681
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 28, 2005 - 7:52 pm: |
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It should key 50 and swing 150 right out of the box on am. I'd move that standby frequency away from 10 meters. Just some caring advise. Welcome aboard.
Mikefromms |
