Upgrading an M-RK II to AEGIS

[HMT69]

Hello,

is there any way of making an Analog (PK2PTX/344A3937P233) M-RK II AEGIS-capable short of selling it on eBay and buying a new one? Rewriting the feature string? Changing the firmware?

[Glen W Christen]

It requires a different board.

[HMT69]

Okay, I've come to understand that this is the case.

However, what are the chances that I can take this board off an AEGIS enabled GE Ericsson M-PA (product ID: PAPATH) - there's a bunch of those for sale cheap on eBay, but all worn out and without batteries etc.

[silverbk]

Okay, I've come to understand that this is the case.

However, what are the chances that I can take this board off an AEGIS enabled GE Ericsson M-PA (product ID: PAPATH) - there's a bunch of those for sale cheap on eBay, but all worn out and without batteries etc.

I don't know if the M-PA board will fit in your radio, but what you can do is if you buy an Aegis MPA cheap on Ebay, they sell them cheap a lot because they are a wacky split, sometimes you get them for $10.

Then when you get it, you swap the radio front from the Ebay one, with your radio's back from a good split MPA, and now you have a good system MPA with Aegis on your split.

Then you reassemble the other one and sell it on Ebay.