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It did take me a while to figure out the right way to load in the components I was thinking about using. I fired up the free version of EAGLE and did my best to remember anything from the electronics class I had in college. What better time than the present to give it a go? It had been quite a long time since I had designed a schematic and I had never laid out a PCB. Step 2: SchematicĪt this point, I decided that I wanted to make this a little more lasting than just the breadboarded prototype. I used the prototype for a bit and decided it was a success. You can adjust the maximum volume output in the radio settings, which adjusts all of the volume steps too, but I still wasn’t a fan of the granularity of the steps available using just the radio adjustments. By default the volume knob on the radio, when at the lowest setting, was still way too loud.
The radio has a loud internal speaker and it puts out just as much of a punch on the headphone line. The finished prototypeĪs you can see, I also added a potentiometer to adjust the speaker volume.
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Pro tip: search for “replacement cables” and “kenwood 2 pin”. It turns out the keywords to find that were not the most obvious. I eventually found this 2-pack of Kenwood style connection cables on Amazon. It was a bit janky, but it worked to prove the plan. I didn’t have a Kenwood connector sitting around nor was I able to quickly find any, so I opted to get some 3.5mm and 2.5mm TRS audio plugs to do initial prototyping with. This site was helpful for the Anytone connection, and this blog post was helpful for the microphone. With a bit of research about the radio and mic connections, I was able to cobble together a circuit to connect them all together. So I decided that I needed to find a way to make my microphone and an existing speaker place nice.
When traveling, I’d also like to share one mic and speaker set with my other radios. I didn’t want to spend the money on new hardware when I had perfectly good items already. I have a good Elecraft MH3 microphone and plenty of headphones and speakers around the house. There are plenty of speaker-mics and headsets available for the Kenwood type connecton on the radio, but I wasn’t really interested in that. Although it’s a rugged handheld radio, my primary use is at my desk in the home office.įor this use case, a separate microphone is handy to avoid needing to hold the radio or press the less-than-ergonomic PTT button.
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Using both these guides I was able to upgrade the firmware without issue and I’m now running the 878 firmware just fine.
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I also ran across some sites which document upgrading the boot firmware for an 868 to make it install and run the 8878 software.
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So I decided that bluetooth wasn’t worth the extra £70. However thinking further, while in the car I would lose listening to the car stereo. Bluetooth initially appealed to me as I could connect my Apple Airpods or car. I came across many sites which pointed out that the hardware was the same between the two, except for bluetooth. I had to think long and hard to buy the 868 or the 878. I looked around at many different handheld radios, I wanted DMR but also analog. This was my first real radio since being licensed.