swaping visar controller boards

kb9suy · Post by **kb9suy** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 3:03 pm

my visar front board is gone know. I got a excellent radio and all the accesories. Is it possible to get a 800mhz visar board and just program it like a uhf through lab and tune it an make it a uhf radio. I would hopoe someone has tried it i really dont want to buy a new radio. unfortunatly the visar front boards suck if they are dropped.

R F Burns · Post by **R F Burns** » Sat Mar 02, 2002 1:43 am

I have the same problem -- good UHF Visar with a bad controller board (mine cracked at the narrow part near the speaker.) Since I have a small surplus of Visar 800 MHz Privacy Plus radios, I plugged a controller from a working one of them into the UHF's RF section and it did nothing useful (powered on and beeped (not the self-test beep, though.) Tried to read it with Visar conventional RSS to no avail. When I replaced the controller back on the 800MHz PP Visat, it worked fine.

-RFB

kb9suy · Post by **kb9suy** » Sun Mar 03, 2002 8:16 pm

Did you try programming it with htlab software this will aloww you to create codeplugs for anyradio and dump them into a radio. conventional software wont let you just a thought. i would try but i dont have a 800mhz board.

R F Burns · Post by **R F Burns** » Tue Mar 05, 2002 3:54 am

I didn't try much more than a quick read/write with conventional RSS. I didn't have enough time to play. If I get time this week, I'll try and will post the results.

-RFB