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Originally Posted by Ulisesbeato
Wow! Looks like I lit quite a candle here!
Thank Blackshire and Rex R for your enthusiasm. I'm very interested in the info you have posted.
Here one link I found to the T-roc manual where the unit is described in exhaustive detail. I'm sure, if Blackshire is correct about easy assembly, one could be built from these schematics.
I would be interested but, regardless, I would like to purchase an actual vintage unit (and modules) and go from there.
The T-roc seems very sophisticated.
Software? Garageband or Protools should suffice.
So DOES anyone know of a T-roc somebody would be willing to sell?
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You're welcome! And yes, you could build a Transroc from that schematic.
*BUT*--if you'd like to try a cheap and easy rocket transmitter project first, get a copy (they're just $3.48--*including* the postage!--on AbeBooks.com
*here*:
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sea...+Model+Rocketry ) of G. Harry Stine's "Handbook of Model Rocketry" (either the 1983 Arco 5th Edition or the 1994 John Wiley & Sons 6th Edition). The one-transistor, six-component 27 MHz tone transmitter (and a more complex, three-transistor 27 MHz transmitter) is featured in the chapter on payloads.
Also:
All you'll need to receive the simple tone transmitter is a cheap 27 MHz walkie-talkie (just make sure the transmitter's crystal oscillator is the same frequency--the same CB channel, that is--as the walkie-talkie's). Ebay
www.ebay.com sellers offer the crystal oscillators and the other components of the six-component transmitter (the Xtal Set Society
www.midnightscience.com might, too). If you get the walkie-talkie first, you can buy a crystal oscillator of the same frequency for the transmitter, with no worries about it being "cut" for Channel 9 (the emergency channel, the only one of the 40 CB channels that you can't legally use for non-emergency transmissions). The tone transmitter can also be modified to do other things, as is covered in the payload chapter's text.