Date: 16 Mar 89 14:40:44 GMT

From: SV1IW
Subject: IC-32 Mod



Hello everybody, new radios are getting more and more complicated, don't

you agree?



Here is a modification for the new Handheld Icom xcver IC-32 which will make

it to act as a cross band repeater!



1. First take off the battery pack.



2. Remove the 4 screws from radio's back.



3. Remove two screws above and below the PTT and take the whole thing off

   so the four microswitches are revealed.



4. Take carefully the radio apart by slightly pushing away the front cover.



5. Put the two pieces in front of you with the front part at your left and

   the back at your right. Be carefull with the ribbon joining the two

   pieces!!! Orientation is as usual with the place that the battery plugs

   down and the top of radio (i.e. where the antenna goes) up.



6. Find some pads with diodes in the lower right of the left part (front) of

   the radio below to the speaker.Take a look in the drawing below:





  Top of the radio



     [[-|>--[[           The number of diodes installed in the top 3 pads



     [[-|>--[[           depends on the frequency coverage of the rig, maybe



     [[     [[           two or all three.



      _ZDDBD

      
                         will receive from 300-370 Mhz but this is an

                         untested mod!



     [[-|>--[[           When you cut this one crossband repeater is enabled!

        \

     [[   \ [[           If you put this diode crossed and have full

                         frequency coverage not only you enable cross band

                         repeater but you can insert the frequency from the

                         keypad starting from second digit (without this mod

Bottom of the radio      when you wish to insert a frequency in another

where battery plugs      decade from the one you already are, you have to

                         go there manually).







Last but not least to enable cross band repeating first choose a pair of

frequencies with the two vfo's for VHF and UHF.Then press and hold function

key while pressing  with the other hand the following "C" "6" "D". The radio

will start scanning the two frequencies continiously, if a station is heard

in one of the two it will retransmitted from the other! The two frequencies

must be simplex, no cross band repeaters yet sorry!



Next John? >


SOURCE: The QRZ Windows Ham Radio CDROM