<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I've had better luck on the switches using a nipper and just simply cutting the 4 corners at the board. The less you have to put the soldering iron on the board, the less chance of lifting a trace. I also use the nippers to cut off all the jacks. All parts go on the board and a 5 conductor cable is fed out one of the jack holes in the case. I use super glue to weld the buttons on the cover in place and reuse them. I've made about 25 of these to date for myself and our group. We are using primarily CDM series Motorola simplex nodes and I put them together including the motorola 20 pin connector for about $16.50 total price. I have them on 3 motorola MTR2000's and they work great. </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don't think I'd personally want to make a career out of building these but it was fun for a while and I only messed up 3 of them and that was the pin 13 wire connect. Once I started putting hot melt glue on them, I quit breaking off the lead.Jim </div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br name="BB10" caretmarkerset="INVALID" class="markedForCaretMarkerRemoval"></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br name="BB10" caretmarkerset="INVALID" class="markedForCaretMarkerRemoval"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Larry</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, June 24, 2015 20:32</div><div><b>To: </b>ARM Allstar</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>ARM Allstar</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [arm-allstar] A simplified USB FOB modification</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Pictured in Doug's previous FOB
article: <br>
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If you are squeamish about connecting to the CM-108 chip there
really only needs to be a single wire added directly to the CM-108
chip. That is PTT (pin 13). COS (pin 48) is accessible on the
left side (top or bottom solder joint) of SW1 (Vol DN). If you
want/need more room to solder a wire take a needle and press it
under each of the 4 corners of SW1 as you touch each corner with a
soldering iron. The switch will lift right off and you will have
the trace exposed under the left side of the button to make your
connection to pin 48.<br>
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CTCSS detect (pin 39) is available on the right side of SW2 (Vol
UP). The same proceedure will work there if you want that signal.<br>
<br>
Larry - N7FM <br>
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On 06/24/2015 12:28 PM, Doug Crompton wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">Well to answer your two points. The
link on the site for the FOB is not potted. It is the one
shown in the photos. As far as soldering is concerned there
are only two potentially tricky connections to the pins of the
CM108 but as I pointed out if you use the right size wire and
tack it on it is not a big deal. You might be surprised how
easy it is. At $3 each sacrifice one to experiment and maybe
it won't even be a sacrifice! The rest of the components you
can mount or build anyway you desire. It is shown in a DB25
shell but that is certainly not a requirement. At first I was
going to put a little perf board in there but then realized
that most of the components could be mounted right of the
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br>
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<hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 11:44:16 -0600<br>
From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mike@mtweb.net">mike@mtweb.net</a><br>
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:arm-allstar@hamvoip.org">arm-allstar@hamvoip.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] A simplified USB FOB modification<br>
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<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">On 6/24/2015 3:42 AM, Corey
Dean wrote:<br>
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<div>One of the Main reasons I was looking for this in acid
and now the pi2 is due to the blob. Some of us ordered a
bunch just to find you could't get to the chip to modify
it.<br>
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Corey N3FE</div>
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On Jun 24, 2015, at 2:11 AM, Doug Crompton <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:doug@crompton.com">doug@crompton.com</a>>
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<div dir="ltr"><font style="" color="#000000" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">I often get requests for
GPIO control of COS and PTT on the BBB and RPi2.
While we are going to have that capability in the
next release at least for the RPi2 I often wonder
why the great desire to do this and what the problem
is with just modifying the FOB. No matter where the
I/O control comes from you still have to build a
minimal interface for the signals. Having it all
come from one place, the FOB, has several
advantages. One is you can use the code as it is
now, the other is is you are not tying up I/O on the
main board and running wires from two different
places.<br>
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In our testing I have built and tested it both ways
GPIO from the RPi2 or the FOB and I honestly think
it is easier to just modify the FOB. I have written
an article showing an easy way to modify the FOB
that I think most hams who have soldering and small
construction experience could handle. It saves you
about $70/node to do this and a couple of hours of
your time. The article is in the how-to section at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://hamvoip.org" target="_blank">hamvoip.org</a> <br>
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Here is a direct link to it -<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://crompton.com/hamradio/usb_fob_simple_modification/" target="_blank">http://crompton.com/hamradio/usb_fob_simple_modification/</a><br>
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</font><font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">So give
it a try. You certainly don't have much to lose at
about $3.50 in single quantities!</font><br>
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<font style="" face="Tahoma,sans-serif">I would be
glad to answer any questions you may have about this
projec</font>t.<br>
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<b><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">73 Doug</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br>
</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4">WA3DSP</font><font style="font-size:16pt;" size="4"><br>
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For me, it is my eye site, isn't as good as it use to be and
everything has gotten way to small.<br>
Just finished up building a controller and had to use a 5x
magnifier. At least when you bread board stuff you can space
things 2 microns further apart than half an atom:)<br>
I think most hams are older now. I don't see the younger
crowd getting in to the hobby, sad to say. So size of stuff
is more important to me now. As I wont tackle a project that
requires a lot of smt components.<br>
Mike<br>
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