Radio Shack Simplex Repeater Controller (19-345)

Conversion for use with Military radios with U-229 Connectors

Surecom Simplex Repeater Controller

Radio Shack 19345
Simplex Repeater Military Radio Conversion

General Information

This product may not longer be offered by Radio Shack. Wiki: Repeaters: Store-and-forward systems.

This unit is made up of a 30 second digital voice recorder and some circuitry to turn on the recorder when audio is present and to play back the message when the audio stops. By connecting to a single Receiver-Transmitter the combination becomes a Simplex Repeater.

The interface to the radio consists of only three wires:

Ground
Microphone
Earphone

It is not clear to me how this keys the transmit function in a Family Radio Service (FRS) for which this unit was designed. Although I have heard that it will work with the Radio Shack 2 meter radios.

In order to get it to work with the PRC-68B and PRC-126 I added a 4.7 K Ohm resistor (RS 271-1330) and a 2N2222A (RS276-2009) transistor plus a cable with a U-183 AUDIO connector. A standard U-229 type cable could be used since the center pin is not functional in this setup. The cable was from eBay and is sold as a KG-99 to PRC-104 Crypto-Audio cable. The 26 pin connector (MS3126E16-26P) was wired with the pin letters matching the pin letters on the UG-183 (A to A...F to F).

It is wired as follows:

AUDIO A = Black = Ground = printed circuit board ground
AUDIO B = Red = Earphone = solder pad for ear
AUDIO C = Orange = PUSH TO TALK = collector of 2N2222A
AUDIO D = Blue = Microphone = solder pad for mic
AUDIO E = Green = External Power = center solder pad next to power connector
AUDIO F = White = FILL = not used here
no connection = Brown = no connection

By wiring the AUDIO E wire to the external power supply pin on the 19-345 the external 12 VDC power adapter (RS-273-1662 w/ + to tip) will also power the PRC-126 or PRC-68B radio but NOT the PRC-68. The 19-345 may control the PRC-68 and supply power if the switch on the PRC-68 is set to OFF! In this position the radio runs from the AUDIO pin E power supply. The 300 mA transformer shown n this page does not have enough current to drive the 19-345 and the PRC-68 so a 500 mA wall wart is needed.

Note that the volume control of the RT being used as the repeater must be adjusted for best sound quality. If it is set all the way down the 19-345 will not hear the audio.

Photo of component side of stock printed circuit board showing the voice chip and what may be an 8 pin PIC microcontroller. Pin 3 on the microcontroller is the high = play pin.


Before Mod	After Mod

Here is another way to make the conversion to mil radio use by Federico Torres, KP4KSL Annotated Photo.bmp -
P.H.S.Ltd -2-Way Radio Range Extender -

Surecom Simplex Repeater Controller

Surecom sells a number of repeater controllers, but the SR-112 is the simplex version that works with Baofeng radios.
Comes with interconnect cable for Baofeng radios. These are designed to work with many radios by getting an optional interconnect cable.
YouTube Baofeng GM 15 PRO Range Test, how far will it talk, 12:07 - uses the SR-112 to allow one man testing of range.

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