[Premium-Rx] WJ-8617A/MFP parts and firmware

[spencer bahner]

Paolo, 
By any chance do you have an email address for the Turkish seller you mentioned in this posting from long ago? I think his screen name from eBay is ‘tolga’.

Thanks!

> On May 20, 2017, at 3:14 AM, Paolo Viappiani <pviappiani at tin.it> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Raymond:
> 
> - About the MFP AGC card you're searching for, please give a look at  
> the  eBay item 292117505416
> (A4A6 MFP AGC amplifier 796175-1) that is currently offered by a Turkish seller.
> About that seller, I can assure you he is a very honest and reliable man. I purchased many items from him and I always received them by DHL "rocket shipments" (two or three days from Turkey to Italy!),
> the items were always 100% OK.
> 
> - On the MFP software for the two EPROMS located in the MFP-A4 cards (U1 and U2), as far as I know in the past some EPROM codes of the WJ-8618 V-UHF receivers were available on the Internet (on the now-closed Steve Pappin's website) but I never saw anything about the WJ-8718/MFP and/or the WJ-8718A/MFP EPROMs.
> For sure if some volunteers could do the job, it would be very useful for many people. Who knows,
> maybe in the future I decide to start that work... despite a lot of EPROM versions had been developed and produced by Watkins-Johnson (as the software itself has to deal also with the eventual options that are installed in the receiver: 1-Hz resolution, COR-M, remote IEEE-488 or RS-232 controls).
> 
> Hope this can be of some help.
> Best regards, 73.
> Paolo
> 
> Paolo Viappiani, Italy
> Inviato da iPhone
> 
>> Il giorno 19/mag/2017, alle ore 15:52, Raymond Boute <raymond.boute at pandora.be> ha scritto:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> To reconfigure my WJ-8617A/MFP, I am looking for the following.
>> - type 796175 A4A6 AGC amplifier
>> - firmware (binary file or EPROMs) for the 488 GPIB option.
>> Any help is appreciated.
>> 
>> 73
>> Raymond ON4DBV 
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