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Wouxun HT GPS+Voice Interface: Circuitry!

After a few sessions of soldering-and-checking, it looks good:

HT-GPS PCB - cabled in place
HT-GPS PCB – cabled in place

The yellow wires on the far right are temporary power connections; battery power enters through the contact studs in those large holes that press against the radio’s battery terminals. The cable in the lower right is the mis-color-coded USB cable that carries audio to & from the earbud & mic on the helmet. Not all the pads have components; I didn’t use all the parallel bypass cap locations because I wasn’t up for protracted self-resonance measurements.

The TinyTrak3+ cable solders into the empty DB9 footprint over on the left. I must cannibalize that from the ICOM IC-Z1A interface in Mary’s bike after the next Wouxun KG-UV3D arrives; with any luck, there’ll be a rainy day or two for that work.

The as-built schematic (clicky for more dots), which is pretty close to the original intent:

Schematic - Wouxun HT GPS+Voice Interface - August 2012
Schematic – Wouxun HT GPS+Voice Interface – August 2012

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