My daily driver is a uniden washington. I have an extra TS-130s final unit and I have been wanting to attach it to the washington for years now but abandoned it due to a lack of knowledge. I think I have the connections figured out now.
It would seem the first pair or wires on the bottom is for SWR foldback as it goes to a transistor very near to the directional coupler on the filter unit. I havent analyzed the circuit there, but I would assume bypassing the emitter would increase gain, so I am thinking swapping diodes D4 and D5 with caps and leave these two leads disconnected (or use it as a variable power mod). The thermal protection stuff that drives relays can go too because I don't normally sit on the mic very long. That should leave just the bias control thats TX only and the other three that I figure can connect right to 13v. Of course, the relays and a filter will have to be macgyvered onto a custom board and tucked inside the radio somehow (and shielded, maybe an external box, idk), a PS upgrade and maybe even some hot switching prevention.
I'm not an amp builder so I must ask if this would be ok to run on AM too or if I would need change bias for AM (the TS-130s had no AM). Anyone know if this will play nice with AM?
It would seem the first pair or wires on the bottom is for SWR foldback as it goes to a transistor very near to the directional coupler on the filter unit. I havent analyzed the circuit there, but I would assume bypassing the emitter would increase gain, so I am thinking swapping diodes D4 and D5 with caps and leave these two leads disconnected (or use it as a variable power mod). The thermal protection stuff that drives relays can go too because I don't normally sit on the mic very long. That should leave just the bias control thats TX only and the other three that I figure can connect right to 13v. Of course, the relays and a filter will have to be macgyvered onto a custom board and tucked inside the radio somehow (and shielded, maybe an external box, idk), a PS upgrade and maybe even some hot switching prevention.
I'm not an amp builder so I must ask if this would be ok to run on AM too or if I would need change bias for AM (the TS-130s had no AM). Anyone know if this will play nice with AM?
