If there is any interest in this still, I'd be willing to look at writing some type of simple prg. to read and generate the binary image for the 2716 file..
I have some other program's that use a similar look up table technique, so it should be pretty simple.. Pete, N2MCI --- In [email protected], Mike Morris WA6ILQ <wa6...@...> wrote: > > At 12:47 PM 01/29/10, you wrote: > >Can anyone burn a 2716 Prom chip for a GLB ID-1 Ide'er? > > > >Not a standard hex file. have some docs. > > > >Thanks > > > >Fred > >wa2...@... > > Actually it's is a standard hex file. It's just created a bit weirdly. > > The binary pattern in it contains the call sign as a 1-bit stream. > You could have multiple call signs as data bit 0 was one call > sign, data bit 1 was another, data bit 2 was a third, etc. > > I forget if a "1" programmed bit was tone off or tone on, but > location 0 had to be programmed with the tone off. > > Just read the old chip, map the bits on a piece of graph paper, > and it will all fall into place. > > Just map out what you want as a new call sign (or several call signs) > as a string of bits, then map them as two digit hex characters, > then program the PROM accordingly. > > While Hex Workshop makes it a lot easier, I've used Notepad > to do the editing and the calculator in windows (in Scientific mode) > to do the binary to hex (and back) conversions. > Hex Workshiop is available at <http://www.bpsoft.com> > > I've only seen one of these IDers, and it was wired with a > couple of extra mods... > 1) it had a 5vDC wall wart transformer so that if the AC > power failed it would change from one call sign to another > that had a trailing "/DC" at the end of the ID sequence > 2) the switch on the rack door changed the ID to a > trailing "/DO". > > When you come right down to it, the GLB IDer was a good > product 20-25 years ago, but a $20 ID-O-Matic kit that you > can program with a computer serial port is a helluva lot less > hassle these days (and it supports two messages - you can > connect a 5vDC wall wart or a door open switch if you want to). > See <http://www.hamgadgets.com/product_info.php?products_id=64> > And there is no fancy software - hyperterminal will do. > > Mike WA6ILQ >
