[TenTec] CorsairII obsolescence - MCU copying

[Richards]

Gee, sweet.   A couple of observations:

1)   Looks nice, neat and easy for most guys to pull off.
2)   Looks fairly inexpensive, considering.
3)   Best feature (beyond function) is it fits where the old one was.

I will probably never own a Corsair, but I marvel at the cooperation and 
team play goes into this ham radio hobby, such that all sorts of guys 
with different talents do some amazing things to keep the older gear 
going.   I think the Corsair and Omni VI lines (and those that look like 
them) are really cool looking.  I like the gray face plates and all the 
nicely laid out buttons and knobs.   I buy new radios, but these older 
sets are "da bomb."

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Happy Trails.
=======================  Richards / K8JHR  =========================

On 8/9/2011 14:42, Steve Hunt wrote:
> I decided I needed another challenge, so last week I taught myself some
> PIC assembler programming and bought a Arizona Microchip USB programmer.
> The result - a hand-wired matrix board with just a few components which
> replaces all the CorsairII MCU frequency readout functionality.