{"id":3502,"date":"2016-12-12T18:30:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2016-12-16T07:55:24","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:55:24","slug":"new-life-for-your-ft-290r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=3502","title":{"rendered":"New life for your FT-290R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned previously that I figured out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=2921\">how to make a new display for an FT-x90R<\/a>. My own rig is still in pieces &#8216;cos I&#8217;m not quite happy with the software yet (or actually, with my reverse engineering of the display protocol, but it&#8217;s the same thing in the end).<\/p>\n<p>But Dave ZS5DF wanted his rig fixed so <a href=\"http:\/\/retro.co.za\/zs1ke\/FT-290R\/ZS1KE-display\/ZS5DF-display-replacement.html\">I fitted a new display<\/a>, even though it doesn&#8217;t have the <del>F key<\/del> &#8220;P&#8221; priority display function in firmware yet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3504\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130871r.jpg\" alt=\"P1130871r\" width=\"640\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130871r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130871r-300x294.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two filament bulbs, because the replacement display needs light from the right-hand side and the S meter is on the left-hand side.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3503\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130882r.jpg\" alt=\"P1130882r\" width=\"640\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130882r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/P1130882r-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Component cost is close to R500 which almost puts it in good-money-after-bad territory but I like these little radios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned previously that I figured out how to make a new display for an FT-x90R. My own rig is still in pieces &#8216;cos I&#8217;m not quite happy with the software yet (or actually, with my reverse engineering of the display protocol, but it&#8217;s the same thing in the end). But Dave ZS5DF wanted his rig fixed so I fitted a new display, even though it doesn&#8217;t have the F key &#8220;P&#8221; priority display function in firmware yet. Two filament bulbs, because the replacement display needs light from the right-hand side and the S meter is on the left-hand side.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,31,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-geek","category-zs1ke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3509,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions\/3509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}