I just acquired one from auction (no not eBay!) and was is pristine condition as it was used as a permanent event station at a University. I used a pair of end-snips, the same I use for cutting zip-ties and was able to carefully clip from the middle and used electronic cleaner to remove the particles. I must say that this nearly 20 year old rig was truly a remarkable one. 73 K6JWB
Sir I really like the fact you clean the board after the removal. I took my stryker 10 meter radio and had a 11 meter mod done, When I opened the radio up I found A nasty mess left by the tech.
Guten Morgen Peter, es ist mir eine Freude, Sie kennenzulernen. Which is about the extent of my German language skills. I found it quite ironic that the subject of your video today was a cross-band repeater as I am in the process of building the same thing for the same reason. Unfortunately, I don't have a nice radio like that Kenwood so I am converting a couple of E. F. Johnson Challenger commercial radios to the amateur bands and using a basic repeater control board and a small PLC to handle the routing of the carrier activity sensor, ctcss tone decode, tx audio and receive audio and PTT. Basically, just building the entire thing out of my junk box. I have designed and redesigned the circuit about twenty times because in the back of my mind I want to add a 33cm radio into the mix at some point, selectable with either DTMF or CTCSS, I have not decided which at this point. I really enjoy your videos, and look forward to each new one that you post. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I feel that it is the sign of a truly great individual who unselfishly teaches others as well as being the very backbone of Amateur Radio. Once again Thank You for what you do. Mark K5YW
Hi Mark, thanks for your friendly greetings and the kind words :-) Ah very nice that you are working on a cross-bad project. Have fun with it hope it will work soon. 73
My TS-2000 had R53 and R52 still in there. In the USA R54 should be out. When I called Kenwood they told me 99% of them that are sold in the USA have the Sky Command / Cross band already opened. And you are absolutely right about these surface mount resistors....you better know what you are doing and have no more then a 20 watt soldering iron with a fine tip or the tweezers type that you used. I modified my own and these resistors are as small as gnats or smaller. Better have a good eyes, magnifying glass and very steady hand. Also a good idea is that if you don't want to re-program your radio manually I recommend RT Systems. It saved me alot of headaches and hours of pushing buttons to re-program! This modification will also get you on the MARS & CAP and you will be able to listen to the aircraft band (118. to 135.0 AM)...Oh and by the way...Kenwood also says this modification WILL NOT harm your radio at all. And if you have problems with like your Sky Command or Cross band, then you have other issues. They highly expressed that this modification will not in any way harm your radio or make other functions stop working. If they do stop working then either you did something wrong or someone else did if you did not buy it from the factory or a dealer.
Nice tip Peter and seeing the procedure fully. Thx very much for sharing it. Waiting for next one ;) i have pending work with your videos and mr carlson ones )))
Hi my friend....great videos by the way....can I ask you why you left in place the one resistor and what that would do if removed... And if I remove all resistors would it open up the PMR bands and CB 11mtr band for receive and transmit. Many thanks. KR. Pete. UK
Realy glad you put this video up. I have the USA version and always wondered why sky command would not work. My radio is 9 years old never been used for nothing but CW and 80 meters. I don't have the tweezer. Maybe my hot air station will work. When I remove them gonna stick them to a piece of captain tape and leave them inside the panel.
Thank you Peter for the video of the modification to the Kenwood TS 2000 TxRx. I now know what to do when I get one. Still like this model very much for its looks compering it with the common black box style. 73 de John - G0WXU.
Great work Peter. I've noticed a piece of loose solder got dropped on the screw at 15:39, I hope you saw that too and removed it before closing up the radio. Thanks for sharing!
@@TRXLab I am sure it got removed while cleaning the flux even if you did not see it. I see a very slim chance of it staying there and eventually shorting something. Us viewers usually have a better angle than you, as you have to work around the camera to give us that better angle. So I think it is a kind of duty for us to comment when we see something like this. All the best!
Good morning Peter, that was a nice piece between tea and "Brötchen" ;-) I recognized it already yesterday, but i saved it for sunday breakfast. Hope you do fine, have a good new year. 73 de Olaf
Those tweezers are really great for those little parts. The tuner does not work on 60m he'll have to use an external tuner or a resonant antenna there. If you keep the dial brightness at number one the light bulbs will last for a long time, mine are 8 years old and none are burnt out. If he wants to use an amplifier on it go to menu 28A and set the delay to 25 ms not 10 ms, it's an ALC thing as the transmitter very quickly goes to around 140 watts then back down. I had tuning cap arcing on an AL80 until I found that out. You are right on the K models. I hear that Kenwood has finally quit making the TS2K. Happy twenty nineteen.
Hi OJ, yes I can confirm that this little tweezers are excellent, they are powerful and very handy to use. Oh that is interesting as the 60m works fine with this radio . May be you have an older version?? Thanks for your contribution. Happy twenty nineteen.
I am just about to do this mod to my own TS2000 and just wondered what the remaining resistor in that section does? Please can you tell me what it controls.
Same as always, instructive and useful movie Peter. Did you notice, who produced ceramic filters that stay in modern TS-2000? TOKO or something different?
Great upload .. Can you recommend a source for a replacement display panel for my TS 2000 . Mine is totally dead. Not just illumination . I have no L.C.D. Display..
the resistor does not lock anything. putting a level to ground via a 0 Ohm resistor changes a digital word to the MCU which makes the MCU work in a different way according to the program running on the system
Hi. How works this tx-2000 ,unlocked by receiving and by transmission in vhf and uhf band with no correction input ,output hellical filters? How good is then sensitivity receiver?
Hi Peter, thank you for showing us these mods. Just a curious question, it was one resistor left when you removed those three - what kind of purpose has that resistor? Is it another mod? Greetings from Norway. 73 de LB5JG
The bottom left jumper is what makes it an E (European) model. If that one and the one above it are removed, it becomes a K model (USA). If the top left one is in and the bottom left is out, then it is an E2 model (Spain). Note that changing these will change things like band edges and automatic repeater offsets among other things.
Hello Peter, what is the annoying background noise that is always hearable wen you are talking to the Camera sitting in frond of your desk? It is only on the right channel. Sounds like a aquarium bubbler that is bubbeling very fast and with high pitch.
Hi guys, I really don't know what it is and where it was coming from. On my PC speakers it was hardly to hear and so I didn't catch it during editing. Sorry for that
i like to do mars mod to every trx which i have because i dont want to have two radios for CB/PMR/ shared freqs and HAM :) 73 de OK2(no callsign yet :) )
Not sure why you'd bother with taking a test if you intend on using this radio illegally, bit like taking driving test, getting your licence and driving everywhere at 100 mph, no point in taking a test if you can't abide by the rules.
Yep me too with a lawless government why bother with their rules..The USA has more rules and laws that make no sense than any other country on the planet..
I had one of those POS radios and I sold it for just $500 so I would never see it again.It’s almost as useless as the Yaesu FT-857D but not quite.I should have known better than to not buy another ICOM and I decided to buy Two ICOM Radios in place of this POS& I will never make that mistake again EVER at any price.👎🏻🤮
I just acquired one from auction (no not eBay!) and was is pristine condition as it was used as a permanent event station at a University. I used a pair of end-snips, the same I use for cutting zip-ties and was able to carefully clip from the middle and used electronic cleaner to remove the particles. I must say that this nearly 20 year old rig was truly a remarkable one. 73 K6JWB
Thanks so much for the lack of obfuscating music. It really makes a technical video more informative.
My butt was starting to get sore from grabbing my chair just WATCHING you handle that NEW radio.. thank you for sharing your knowledge
LOL glad that the video was so exiting to you. Thanks for your comment
Sir I really like the fact you clean the board after the removal. I took my stryker 10 meter radio and had a 11 meter mod done, When I opened the radio up I found A nasty mess left by the tech.
Guten Morgen Peter, es ist mir eine Freude, Sie kennenzulernen. Which is about the extent of my German language skills. I found it quite ironic that the subject of your video today was a cross-band repeater as I am in the process of building the same thing for the same reason. Unfortunately, I don't have a nice radio like that Kenwood so I am converting a couple of E. F. Johnson Challenger commercial radios to the amateur bands and using a basic repeater control board and a small PLC to handle the routing of the carrier activity sensor, ctcss tone decode, tx audio and receive audio and PTT. Basically, just building the entire thing out of my junk box. I have designed and redesigned the circuit about twenty times because in the back of my mind I want to add a 33cm radio into the mix at some point, selectable with either DTMF or CTCSS, I have not decided which at this point. I really enjoy your videos, and look forward to each new one that you post. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I feel that it is the sign of a truly great individual who unselfishly teaches others as well as being the very backbone of Amateur Radio. Once again Thank You for what you do.
Mark
K5YW
Hi Mark, thanks for your friendly greetings and the kind words :-) Ah very nice that you are working on a cross-bad project. Have fun with it hope it will work soon. 73
My TS-2000 had R53 and R52 still in there. In the USA R54 should be out. When I called Kenwood they told me 99% of them that are sold in the USA have the Sky Command / Cross band already opened. And you are absolutely right about these surface mount resistors....you better know what you are doing and have no more then a 20 watt soldering iron with a fine tip or the tweezers type that you used. I modified my own and these resistors are as small as gnats or smaller. Better have a good eyes, magnifying glass and very steady hand. Also a good idea is that if you don't want to re-program your radio manually I recommend RT Systems. It saved me alot of headaches and hours of pushing buttons to re-program! This modification will also get you on the MARS & CAP and you will be able to listen to the aircraft band (118. to 135.0 AM)...Oh and by the way...Kenwood also says this modification WILL NOT harm your radio at all. And if you have problems with like your Sky Command or Cross band, then you have other issues. They highly expressed that this modification will not in any way harm your radio or make other functions stop working. If they do stop working then either you did something wrong or someone else did if you did not buy it from the factory or a dealer.
Great tip as always Peter. man I got to get me a pair of those hot tweezers!. They do a nice job. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Buddy. Yes I can confirm that the tweezers are excellent...Happy twenty nineteen my friend
Me too!
Nice tip Peter and seeing the procedure fully. Thx very much for sharing it. Waiting for next one ;) i have pending work with your videos and mr carlson ones )))
Thanks for watching Carlos
Hi my friend....great videos by the way....can I ask you why you left in place the one resistor and what that would do if removed...
And if I remove all resistors would it open up the PMR bands and CB 11mtr band for receive and transmit.
Many thanks.
KR.
Pete.
UK
Now i got one.Mny tnx fr the technical demo dear old man-73''s de VU3MJF-AIRFOX
Brave man on a brand new radio!🙀
Realy glad you put this video up. I have the USA version and always wondered why sky command would not work. My radio is 9 years old never been used for nothing but CW and 80 meters. I don't have the tweezer. Maybe my hot air station will work. When I remove them gonna stick them to a piece of captain tape and leave them inside the panel.
be very careful if you never have worked on smd...hot air will work fine but still you can damage your pcb
Ty for the information. I will be careful.
I just tombstone mine (stand the resistors up on one end connected to only one pad) so they stay in the radio in case they need to be put back in.
Thank you Peter for the video of the modification to the Kenwood TS 2000 TxRx. I now know what to do when I get one. Still like this model very much for its looks compering it with the common black box style. 73 de John - G0WXU.
This is very useful information and easy to follow. Thank you.
Great work Peter. I've noticed a piece of loose solder got dropped on the screw at 15:39, I hope you saw that too and removed it before closing up the radio. Thanks for sharing!
Good point Bora haven't recognised it..Thanks for stepping in 73
@@TRXLab I am sure it got removed while cleaning the flux even if you did not see it. I see a very slim chance of it staying there and eventually shorting something. Us viewers usually have a better angle than you, as you have to work around the camera to give us that better angle. So I think it is a kind of duty for us to comment when we see something like this. All the best!
Good morning Peter, that was a nice piece between tea and "Brötchen" ;-) I recognized it already yesterday, but i saved it for sunday breakfast. Hope you do fine, have a good new year. 73 de Olaf
Good morning Olaf, hope you enjoyed your Sunday breakfast :-) Have a very good twenty nineteen 73
after modifications ,band pass filter's going well?
all is working fine without complaints..
@ 16:50 there is a solder ball near the screw head, I like your tweezers
very good video from Gary in the UK.
Thanks for watching and comment Gary!
8:16 you were transmitting on 439 MHz, not on the 40 meter band.
Nice job peter big thumbs up 👍
Thank you Allan. 73
nice video Peter.,thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching Ray
A friend of mine WB5UBG loved these radios, sadly he passed last month. He and I got our license at the same time in 1976.
K5AZE...
Hi Wayne, I feel sorry to hear that...and yes your friend was right...Kenwood are really nice radios.
I need to do that to my ts - 2000 .
Those tweezers are really great for those little parts. The tuner does not work on 60m he'll have to use an external tuner or a resonant antenna there. If you keep the dial brightness at number one the light bulbs will last for a long time, mine are 8 years old and none are burnt out. If he wants to use an amplifier on it go to menu 28A and set the delay to 25 ms not 10 ms, it's an ALC thing as the transmitter very quickly goes to around 140 watts then back down. I had tuning cap arcing on an AL80 until I found that out. You are right on the K models. I hear that Kenwood has finally quit making the TS2K. Happy twenty nineteen.
Hi OJ, yes I can confirm that this little tweezers are excellent, they are powerful and very handy to use. Oh that is interesting as the 60m works fine with this radio . May be you have an older version?? Thanks for your contribution. Happy twenty nineteen.
OJ, I think you'll find those are LEDs, not light bulbs. They'll last forever. Mine are 15 years old. No problems.
My auto tuner works on mine after the modification.
Well-crafted and entertaining instructional video! Good work!
Thank you Tom
Nice work, Peter. Thanks.
Thank you Robert. 73
Thank you Peter, Yes those tweezer's certainly make life easier allways great video's 73 James VK6NJP
Thanks for watching James. Yes I agree those tweezers are really helpful 73
@@TRXLab...What brand name is those tweezers?
I am just about to do this mod to my own TS2000 and just wondered what the remaining resistor in that section does? Please can you tell me what it controls.
Same as always, instructive and useful movie Peter. Did you notice, who produced ceramic filters that stay in modern TS-2000? TOKO or something different?
Thanks for feed back. Sorry no I did not look for the filters...
@@TRXLab Nevermind. I will look forward your next movi. Good luck Peter.
another brilliant video thanks 73s
Thank you Michael 73
Thanks Peter for sharing, very interesting . 73s Pasquale IW0HEX
Thanks Pasquale 73
great video thanks. question .... can the rx mod be done on its own or does it have to be tx acnd rx ?
nice video
Great upload .. Can you recommend a source for a replacement display panel for my TS 2000 . Mine is totally dead. Not just illumination . I have no L.C.D. Display..
What does the final 0 ohm resistor lock
the resistor does not lock anything. putting a level to ground via a 0 Ohm resistor changes a digital word to the MCU which makes the MCU work in a different way according to the program running on the system
@@TRXLab Oh yes of corse I understand now
Hi. How works this tx-2000 ,unlocked by receiving and by transmission in vhf and uhf band with no correction input ,output hellical filters? How good is
then sensitivity receiver?
Is it possible to expand the bands for the 70 up?
ANOTHER GREAT JOB...
Thanks for feed back
Hi Peter, thank you for showing us these mods. Just a curious question, it was one resistor left when you removed those three - what kind of purpose has that resistor? Is it another mod? Greetings from Norway. 73 de LB5JG
Sorry I don't know. Kenwood did not provide the information..
@@TRXLab thank you for the answer :)
The bottom left jumper is what makes it an E (European) model. If that one and the one above it are removed, it becomes a K model (USA). If the top left one is in and the bottom left is out, then it is an E2 model (Spain). Note that changing these will change things like band edges and automatic repeater offsets among other things.
@@stargazer7644 ...The bottom left is in mine and i'm in the USA and I don't see any difference in ANY functions.
Cooles Video wieder. Danke!
Danke fürs vorbeischauen
Did you measure the PPBUS_3v42?
no, what is that?
@@TRXLab He was making a joke, on Louis Rossman's channel he is always measuring that voltage rail so it has become a catch phrase of sorts.
Hello Peter, what is the annoying background noise that is always hearable wen you are talking to the Camera sitting in frond of your desk? It is only on the right channel. Sounds like a aquarium bubbler that is bubbeling very fast and with high pitch.
I heard that, I was on my exercise bike and thought something had happened to it, but i stopped peddling and the noise was still there...
It sounds like a cooling fan to me.
I believe that is a suction fan for the solder smoke.
@@KJ7XJ The noise that I heard was present at the very begging, it's not nearly as loud as the suction fan.
Hi guys, I really don't know what it is and where it was coming from. On my PC speakers it was hardly to hear and so I didn't catch it during editing. Sorry for that
very nice job
Thank you Denny 73
Very reminiscent of how people in East Germany had to modify their televisions and radios and hope the Stasi never caught them.
Sweet delicious irony.
Hi Peter,
They were some easy mods. :-) 73 WB3BJU
You are right Donald that was an easy one :^) 73
i like to do mars mod to every trx which i have because i dont want to have two radios for CB/PMR/ shared freqs and HAM :)
73 de OK2(no callsign yet :) )
Not sure why you'd bother with taking a test if you intend on using this radio illegally, bit like taking driving test, getting your licence and driving everywhere at 100 mph, no point in taking a test if you can't abide by the rules.
@@alberttatlock5237 ...Well said!
Yep me too with a lawless government why bother with their rules..The USA has more rules and laws that make no sense than any other country on the planet..
Danke, Peter. 73...w4mnc, Dan
Thanks for watching Dan 73
bravo !
i'am new user TS-2000, thanks for You time. CRIS SQ2LMH
thaks
Thanks for watching
I had one of those POS radios and I sold it for just $500 so I would never see it again.It’s almost as useless as the Yaesu FT-857D but not quite.I should have known better than to not buy another ICOM and I decided to buy Two ICOM Radios in place of this POS& I will never make that mistake again EVER at any price.👎🏻🤮
All ok,just the talking gets in my nerves