FT-307 / FT-107 Internal power supply connection to 230V

I'm now in holidays in Portugal and finally could see the Sommerkamp FT-307 (Yesu FT-107) I bough last time. If you don't know the story,  bough a non working unit/unknown status some time ago and asked a friend to collect and keep it until my return.

Well, the radio is as was advertised, non transmitting and not tested after some smoke left the equipment during transmit.

I powered it on as soon as received the equipment and it's OK receiving but no transmission. Here's the first pictures:

Now, the equipment was set up to use 220v on the internal power supply, currently mains is at 230V so I needed to make the changes before continuing testing.

I was surprised how easy was to make the change, that is working inside the radio, here's the process:

1- Remove the top cover (you need to remove the handle bolts also), no picture since I'm sure everybody already did this to a radio at some point in time.
This step is only needed as a helper to check the internal routing of the cables on re-assembly.

2- Remove the 6 bolts from the back cover:

3- After the cover removed, remove the 4 fixing bolts from the PSU unit to the chassis:

4 - ...then gently pull the PSU unit and remove the 4 bolts securing the gridded top cover to expose the connections:

 5- Previous picture shows the 220V connection... next one already with connection on 234/230:

... that's it, two solder points changed, one is the "jumper" and the other the "line" both from 110 to 117.

Additional notes: the diagram and the vcc as measured on the radio meter:

Have a nice week!

Arduino frequency counter

I needed a frequency counter with serial output so an Arduino can count and process, then I realized that the Arduino can be used directly for counting in the range 0 to 8Mhz.
Code and lib is from this reference: http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/interfaces-advanced/arduino-frequency-counter-library/

Here's the diagram:

 The oscillator part (on the left) was just for testing if was working, if standalone input is "F_in" on diagram.
The serial out from the Arduino looks like this:

The input signal on D5 of the "Nano":

...and as curiosity the signal on the oscillator:

...not the most beautiful but enough for testing.

Code is this one:
 // ----------------
 #include
// counter code from here: http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/interfaces-advanced/arduino-frequency-counter-library/

unsigned long frq;

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);        // connect to the serial port
  Serial.println("Starting");
}

void loop() {
  FreqCounter::f_comp=10;   // Cal Value / Calibrate with professional Freq Counter
  FreqCounter::start(100);  // 100 ms Gate Time
  while (FreqCounter::f_ready == 0)
  frq=FreqCounter::f_freq;
  Serial.print("  F: ");
  Serial.println(frq);
  delay(20);
} 
 //-----------------


Things changed, don't need this part/project any more, in any case it stays for future reference.

Have a nice week!