{"id":851,"date":"2015-02-26T04:47:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ber10thal.com\/blog\/?p=851"},"modified":"2015-09-11T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T01:20:12","slug":"yaesu-vx-8dr-beyond-mars-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/yaesu-vx-8dr-beyond-mars-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Yaesu VX-8DR beyond mars modification"},"content":{"rendered":"

After using my radio for a while and making sure everything worked I decide to go beyond Mars (MARS\\CAP). Here’s how it looks. Before I began I look up a video on a technique to de-solder small resisters<\/a>. The term that came up with the video was SMD. I guess it has something to do with surface mounted electronics. It was a bit of a pain to remove this resister and I did end up adding more solder like in the video. I found the added solder conducted the heat more efficiently. I also turned up the heat fairly high. Not the highest, but maybe upwards of 78% of the total output.<\/p>\n

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This is the resister as seen through a 16x loop<\/p>\n

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To get to it I had to peel off the waterproof seal behind the battery. This is what it looks like to the naked eye.<\/p>\n

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This is my setup. A lighted 5x magnifying glass sitting on top of a box.<\/p>\n

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This is the view through the magnifying glass. This is what I saw when I desoldered the resister.<\/p>\n

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This is the size of the resister compared to the soldering tip, and this was the fine tip attachment…<\/p>\n

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This is the size of the resister as seen through a 5x magnifying glass after I removed it.<\/p>\n

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This is what comes up on the radio after it’s turned back on. All the data and settings are erased. I still reset all settings after I was done, but I don’t think it was necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After using my radio for a while and making sure everything worked I decide to go beyond Mars (MARS\\CAP). Here’s how it looks. Before I began I look up a video on a technique to de-solder small resisters. The term that came up with the video was SMD. I guess it has something to do … Continue reading Yaesu VX-8DR beyond mars modification<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amateur-ham-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ber10thal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}