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Midian ANI-F on Motorola P100

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radioboy29

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I recently bought a pair of Motorola P100 radios on eBay, and found that they didn't have MDC-1200 like I would have liked. So I did research and came across the Midian ANI-F multi-format encoder chip. For $80 it's a good deal considering it encodes all ANIs available. Before I purchase it, does anyone know how to install one in a Motorola P100?
 

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before you go spending any more money, if these are VHF or UHF they will be illegal to operate in less than 2 years other than for HAM or GMRS/MURS.

that being said, it has been years since i installed add on boards in a P100 but if i remember correctly it is not that hard. the board should come with instructions and combined with a service manual for you radio you can figure it out easily.
 

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The Radius P100, the first computer programmable, hand held radio has a couple of known problems.

Case front cover studs break off .

Microphonic RX and TX.

Frequency drift due to battery voltage changes. This IS fixable.
 

gary123

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installing the boards is very basic. the connections you will need to make are

B+ - to any 5 or 8 volt constant source (there is at least 1 5 volt regulator in the unit sorry dont remember what part number it is)

Ground - lots of these

PTT - the ptt button or circuit trace

Data out - the deviation pot (center tap)
 
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