Capabilities of unmodified Maxtracs

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Capabilities of unmodified Maxtracs

Postby MP 6.7 » Sun Jun 27, 2010 11:27 pm

Has anyone done any looking into how far out of band a 900MHz Maxtrac will go without hardware modifications? I'm looking to get one to do 932 and just barely north of 941.
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Re: Capabilities of unmodified Maxtracs

Postby Tom in D.C. » Mon Jun 28, 2010 6:29 am

Maxtrac hex editing data can be found at this site:

http://batlabs.com/maxrad.html
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Re: Capabilities of unmodified Maxtracs

Postby MP 6.7 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:18 am

That's what I plan on doing. I just need to know how far a 900 Maxtrac will go before the stock VCO becomes unhappy or I run into a filter...before I buy some.
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Re: Capabilities of unmodified Maxtracs

Postby MP 6.7 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 11:50 pm

And I forgot to add the radio only needs to RX.
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