The new Alinco DJ-160 Radio will receive between 137-174 Mhz, and transmit in the 2Meter band only (144-148Mhz).

A simple modification to the radio will enable it to transmit in the full range it receives currently.

1) Take the battery of the radio by lifting the battery release button. If you look at the bottom of the radio,

there will be a metal plate that is held on with 4 small screws. Take this plate off, noting exactly how the

clip was held on (like the slot for the battery release clip)

2) On the back of the radio there are two screws that hold the back of the radio on, take these screws out.

3) Now you should be able to lift the bottom part of the radio by the battery release button slightly apart.

4) If you take the Battery Release Button and turn it about 90 degress, the button should come out easily.

After you get the small piece of plastic that is the button, you should see a yellow wire behind where the clip was.

5) Take a small wire cutter and CUT this YELLOW wire. You should probably make sure that the wire

doesn't have bare metal showing from a lousy cutter, because I don't think that grounding this wire to the case

would be HEALTHY for your radio. :-)

6) After You cut this wire. Assemble the radio, and just before you turn on the radio, do a power reset

by holding the FUNC button while turning on the radio. This will reset the radio to ALL of the factory set

parameters. YOU WILL LOSE PROGRAMMED FREQUENCIES that were programmed into

the memory mode of the radio, so just write the frequencies down before proceding with the above

instructions.

7) The radio should be just like new, except that the transmit will be enabled for ALL frequencies!

GOOD Luck!

If you use these mods for ILLEGAL purposes, pity upon thy sole, for you do not belong in the ranks

of Amateur Radio. This information is only supplied for Legal and Informational Purposes and I can NOT

be held responsible for anything that you do with this INFO.

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DTMF decoding on the DJ-160,

1) Put radio on frequency to catch tones to be decoded.

2) Push the DIAL CH button (lower right corner of keypad) The LCD will indicate the channel currently selected.

The channel must be 3 to decode DTMF. If it is not Channel 3 then use the M button (top left) to change

selected channel. Once you have the M3 in the window you can push the DIAL CH button again to bring the

display back to indicate the frequency. The word DIAL will remain in the lower right corner of the LCD window.

From this point on any DTMF will be stored in MEM channel 3, but you can not recieve DTMF while you are

looking at MEM channel 3 , you must be looking at the frquency being displayed while decoding.

To see the decoded data, just push DIAL CH and read the displayed data. Use the frequency knob to

rotate the stored DTMF tones that do not appear. The radio will store 16 digits on each transmission,

but the window will only show about 6 at a time. any new data will over write the old... =============================================================================