I have internal 915 mhz radios on my hiperlite plus base and rover. I am not happy with them. Trust me, I have tried absolutely everything to make them work better. I am considering installing this radio pacific crest A01359(439-450mhz) as I already have it. It was removed from an old Topcon Hiper.
Here are the exact specs on it...
http://www.ameradio.com/doc/PC_PDL_RXO_datasheet.pdf
Here is my only question. Can someone on here tell me (for sure) if it will work with normal pacific crest radios?
More specifically the Pacific Crest RFM96W (430-450mhz)
Thank you
BTW. I am not working in North America.
Daniel Shearon with Precision Products is a Hiper guru. He should be able to help you with this question.
He is a great guy, and has bent over backwards to help me in the past.
Tuesday night, Brent Hays of GeoShack broke bread with us and had his fill of catfish and shrimp at West End and showed everyone the HiperV unit and the PS-103 Robot setup along with some accessories.
Sure did tempt everyone because they were quite impressive.
:stakeout:
I have one of the Topcon RE-S1 repeaters that I use with the Hiper Lite + 915 radios. While it won't blow the top off, it will increase the range somewhat. It won't quite double it, though. Or you might be able to pick up an extra receiver and configure it as a repeater, considering the Hipers are now EOL and fairly cheap.
Unless you've got the unlimited range option, you ain't gonna get more than 2-1/2 miles out of them anyway, no matter if you've got a radio that will blow the top off them.
That is a Pacific Crest radio so it should work fine with an FRM96 programmed to the same frequencies. However, the antenna port on a Hiper Lite is a reverse-TNC connecter which is a very non-standard connector. You would need a BNC connector to use a 450-470 MHz antenna. Also Topcon used a signal filter between the radio board and the antenna to filter interference from the other boards and external sources. Without the filter board and proper antenna, at best performance would suffer and at worst it might damage the radio.
