Components were from the junk box and some from my local suplier, I think total cost even from an expensive supplier would be around 10 Eur/USD top most. Cost from Ken-timber(wood) is around 62 Eur, software is free of charge which is nice!
By the way the box is from "Vimeiro" spkarkling water. I have an antenna pre-amplifier inside another water botle in the roof :)
The plugs have to be grinded (trimed) to fit ( full entering) in the radio.
The board was from an power supply experimenting and as always a mix of "Manhattan style" and "Dead bug" which one is faster...
The interface schematic comes from: http://www.geocities.com/azkoza/projects/pg4p/g71cable.html
Here it is the schematic from the above site:
Incidently today as of writing I found another schematic that I didn't tested and dependes on an max232 to make level convertions. Is here: http://www.g1ivg.com/ken_thf7e.htm
Only had an small problem but was on the software side, winblows creates "com port 10" and I was expecting 3 so no communication at the begining.About the radio: so far so good, easy to learn, a little deaf with the stock antenna ( read: dummy load), no small step on 446Mhz to listen exactly on PMR frequency.
In Linux I still haven't tested the interface because the USB to serial cable is not fully operational, I will upgrade soon to Fedora Core 10 and test then, in FC4 and 6 it didn't worked, I have reception but no transmit. Chipset for the cable is PL2303.
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