The tone board in the TS64MASTRII shown in the link looks more like a TS32 mounted on a board to plug into the MII.
The TS64DS is smaller and all connections are made thru a connector and a supplied cable that plugs in. The board shown has the various points for connections as was on the TS32. A TS 64 can be adapted to about any repeater and has better interface than most other tone boards. It will do encode and decode at the same time (so did the TS32). Comm Spec has not made the TS32 for a few years so if getting a product from them I would think they are using the TS64. The TS64 did give a few additional features over the TS32 plus more really not usable tones unless one used Comm Spec boards thru out a system. That's why the TS32 was called 32 and the TS64 was 64 (64 tones). Get, as some have said, the TS64DS. It has dip switches for selecting the tone. 73, ron, n9ee/r >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: 2008/03/05 Wed AM 07:00:25 CST >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] mastr II repeater tone (CG) board. > >I wish I had read this before I ordered the TS-64MASTRII >yesterday. So in my mobile I may not be able to get >encode/decode at all with this? I thought that was the >reason to buy this over the stock GE modules because the >GE modules couldn't do encode/decode at the same time. > >So is it possible to get encode/decode with the >TS-64MASTRII in a converted mobile? If so does anyone out >there know what needs to be done to make it work? > >Thanks, >Vern >KI4ONW > >On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:43:07 -0700 > Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Norman, >> >> I think out of all of our repeaters, we're about "half >>and half" using >> the stock GE boards, and on others when the GE encoder >>boards became >> unrealistically expensive and hard to find, we switched >>over to doing >> this: >> >> http://www.repeater-builder.com/ge/mastr2/ts-64-mastr2-mod/ts-64-mastr2-mod.html >> >> The only thing that may not be clear in that article is >>that the photo >> of the CommSpec TS-64DS is not what we order from >>CommSpec for this -- >> we order the TS-64MSTII which is originally built to >>plug straight >> into a MASTR II mobile rig's system board to replace the >>GE board in a >> mobile. Then we modify the TS-64MSTII as shown in the >>diagrams and >> photos so it'll behave nicely in a MASTR II >>Station/Repeater chassis. >> Ron Wright, N9EE 727-376-6575 MICRO COMPUTER CONCEPTS Owner 146.64 repeater Tampa Bay, FL No tone, all are welcome.
