[MRCA] Are any of thees options useful in a RF-5020

[Ray Fantini]

I have been working on some Falcon RF-5020 and 5022 stuff and just a couple of general questions about the value of options.
I tend to think options that you cannot use are just an additional load on the power supply and a source for additional heat so if no one can come up with something, I am missing going to start pulling the following cards from these radios.

First is the A3 ALE Card and A5 the ALE Establishment card. Have had a couple of the radios where they were not in the radio to begin with and inclined to pull from working radios.
Can’t see any way ALE is used in the Ham world.

Second is a bit more of an issue, the A4 Modem card. Near as I can figure it’s useless for anything below 100 wpm, 75 Baud and although I do a bunch of teletype it's all at 60 wpm, 45.54 Baud.
Short of redesigning the modem bios think this card is also useless.
Would like to use this option but just can’t see how.

Third would be A9 the Frequency Hoping card but although I have played around with maybe a dozen or so of these radios, I never saw one. So that’s easy.

Last but not least! A6 the controller card comes in two flavors. Both cards have the same part number, but one version has a second board that mounts on the card, and others are just the one card. Figure it has to do with some sort of option, but I know I can stick either version in a working 5020 and all the base functions work the same? Assume the second card has some weird ALE or Hoping function?

So those are my questions, let’s see what the greater minds have to say on the subject.

Ray F/KA3EKH



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