Fun Project

A friend (www.moutoulos.com )sent me two pcb's and i started placing parts on them, through hole parts.
It's a RDVV PLL transmitter and a 0-30V 0-10A power supply.
You can get the pcb's yourself and assembly them, they are quite easy to build.

The next step

The next step on my small project will be a firmware dump of my VX-8. My version is the bluetooth corrected software. I've seen that the first versions of this handheld had problems on pairing and yaesu released a new firmware update on this. The seller i got it from claimed this had a new bugfree version.
A firmware dump might give us something to play with.
Seems to be a pain in the ass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBhpiIrMC8

VX-8R Update on the IC's

Some of the VX-8R chips are: A DF2370VLP34V CPU which is based on the H8S/2000 core processor and has 34MHz speed. A CMS589AD5 GMSK modem chip and a V24100 AM/FM radio chip.
Here are the datasheets:
http://rapidshare.com/files/381706846/DF2370VLP34V.pdf
http://rapidshare.com/files/381706233/CMS589AD5.pdf
http://rapidshare.com/files/381707483/V24100.pdf