Hello Mark.
19 Jul 97 18:37, Mark Magill wrote to Roy Witt:
 MM>> Thanks much for any help - He wants $200 for the radio,
 MM>> which SEEMS fair... if I can get it to generate PL tones. If not,
 MM>> it would
 MM>
 RW>> The mic's not a required item...PL tones can be inserted
 RW>> into the radio via a Comspec Specialist's tone generator.
 MM>
 MM>         Thanks Roy. SOMEONE had mentioned that one of the ham mags had
 MM> a kit/project/plan or whatever for building a simple tone generator.
 MM> Do you or anyone know whicn one it was or have a schematic for one? I
 MM> only need to generate a few tones, and although probably a good deal,
 MM> $50 is pretty expensive for me.
Well, I know that CommSpec made some single tone generators that took a reed 
for whatever tone you needed.  The reeds can be put on a switch and you could 
probably switch between at most, two of them.  I don't recall the model 
number but it was M something or other.  They also made a TE-12, which was 
twelve of the tone reeds on a board that generated the tones and a twelve 
position switch.  I had one, but can't seem to find it now.  It was in my 
Drake UV3 before I switched it to 32 tones with BCD switch...  I do have a 
bunch of tunable generators that were a club project from 15 years ago...  
Pay the shipping and I'll send you a couple.  You can tune them to whatever 
tone you need and switch between them.
If all else fails, you could advertise in the HAM-SALE echo for some tone 
generators, cheap...
 MM>         Going to have to stretch things seriously to buy the radio
 MM> itself, which is why I was looking for that special mic or to find out
 MM> if that was even what it needed.
That special mic would cost you $50 bucks or more too... I've got a couple of 
Icom's with those mics on them.  Their not cheap...
... Oh man, you just stepped in a huge pile of !
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