ft-221 cleanup and repair

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Re: ft-221 cleanup and repair

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:lol: Really? we will see,who did you sell them too??get my money back on the microphones as i sold two of those recently for £20 each & the power leads will get about £15 each for and the radios themselves just part them out :D
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Only pulling yer coax :lol: Not a bad price, And im sure you'll be able to save at least one of them, Or worse case you'll easily get your money back on parts etc
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:lol: Wind up merchant ;) yeah i would like to get one of them working,then part the other one out,could'nt resist at that price :)
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PLL02A wrote:Only pulling yer coax :lol: Not a bad price, And im sure you'll be able to save at least one of them, Or worse case you'll easily get your money back on parts etc



It gets better pal,not only were there x6 channelised crystals that i wanted inside these two scrappers but there was also a Mutek front end fitted inside one of them!! :lol:
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Crusader wrote:
PLL02A wrote:Only pulling yer coax :lol: Not a bad price, And im sure you'll be able to save at least one of them, Or worse case you'll easily get your money back on parts etc



It gets better pal,not only were there x6 channelised crystals that i wanted inside these two scrappers but there was also a Mutek front end fitted inside one of them!! :lol:
result :thumbup:
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Yep,just had one better result,one of these radios is fully working :D
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Yep,just had one better result,one of these radios is fully working :D
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ok ok i heard you the first time, stop bragging :lol: Good stuff, But its about time you left a bargain or two for the rest of us :)
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Great find and a nice result
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PLL02A wrote:ok ok i heard you the first time, stop bragging :lol: Good stuff, But its about time you left a bargain or two for the rest of us :)

:lol: Not a chance,you lot can go hunt your own bargains ;) as for bragging..nah i don't do that,that is Bigpimps job ;)
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dt307 wrote:Great find and a nice result
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Be a little wary about using the tone in jack, I believe these were used for taking the output for YC221 counter as a modification.
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Re: ft-221 cleanup and repair

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Yep it is ok,the socket has'nt been modified so it is still a tone in socket,cheers anyways :)
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