A stout, compact, monoband 2m FM transceiver.
Pin | Use | NinoTNC / Kantronics pin |
1 | TX audio | 1 |
2 | Ground | 6 |
3 | PTT | 3 |
5 | RX audio | 5 |
A suitable cable can be made from a PS/2 extension lead, scrap PS/2 mouse or keyboard. Sometimes with the mouse/keyboard option, not all of the required pins are populated, so may not be suitable. Identify the pins with a multimeter (a croc clip lead is useful here.) Solder a DB9 plug on to the other end as above.
A failure mode which has been observed a few times is a very short wideband (hundreds of kHz-wide) pulse of noise at the start of transmission. Be mindful of this since it is quite disruptive. No solution is known.