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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Doug,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Thanks for the great write-up and photos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I now have my BF-888 on the air as a second node.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I used a USB cable (cut off the connectors) and wired it direct to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>the radio board. To make life easier, I decided to put the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>resistors and capacitors at the DB25 end. So far it seems to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>be working fine. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I tried running the radio using the cigarette lighter adapter, but found<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>that this adapter gets extremely hot. So hot that it will almost<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>blister you if you touch it. At present, I’m using the battery with the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>charging stand. But I know that under heavy QSO’s the charger cannot keep up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>with the battery discharge rate. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Bill<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>WD9EQD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> arm-allstar-bounces@hamvoip.org [mailto:arm-allstar-bounces@hamvoip.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Doug Crompton<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, January 24, 2015 3:15 AM<br><b>To:</b> arm-allstar@hamvoip.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [arm-allstar] Baofeng 888 Allstar<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'>I added a link on the hamvoip.org page on my mod of a Baofeng 888. Here is the direct link -<br><br><a href="http://crompton.com/hamradio/baofeng888/" target="_blank">http://crompton.com/hamradio/baofeng888/</a><br><br>This is a take-off of W0FCM's page also linked on hamvoip.org but just done slightly differently.<br><br>It is working well.<br id=FontBreak></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>73 Doug<br>WA3DSP<br><a href="http://www.crompton.com/hamradio">http://www.crompton.com/hamradio</a></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>