{"id":163,"date":"2024-09-05T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/?p=163"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T02:55:00","slug":"ic-7300-mars-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"IC-7300 MARS MOD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I regularly participate in EMCOMM\/AUXCOMM using SHARES frequencies with government officials, so I decided it might be time to have radio capable of running those frequencies.  While this was mildly challenging with only a magnifying glass, phone camera, and standard soldering station.  It went reasonably quick and the finish product doesn&#8217;t look to bad.  If you look close you can see a little left behind rosin I used to make the job easier.  I did however clean that up with a swab &amp; contact cleaner.   Below is the almost finished cleaning up photo.  If you look at the upper left of the diode grid you can see the rosin of which I spoke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IC-7300-Post-MARS-Mod.jpg\" alt=\"IC-7300 post MARS MOD\" class=\"wp-image-164\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IC-7300-Post-MARS-Mod.jpg 720w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/IC-7300-Post-MARS-Mod-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;.and below is the surface mount diode that was removed. it is the speck on the dime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"US Dime with the removed surface mount diode on it.\" class=\"wp-image-169\" style=\"width:836px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-1024x1365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/20240905_1649351-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I regularly participate in EMCOMM\/AUXCOMM using SHARES frequencies with government officials, so I decided it might be time to have radio capable of running those frequencies. While this was mildly challenging with only a magnifying glass, phone camera, and standard soldering station. It went reasonably quick and the finish product doesn&#8217;t look to bad. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elmering","category-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka9kqh.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}