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Geoffrey S. Mendelson · February 5th 07, 11:41 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

wrote:
I've often thought about getting another R-5000. I only had mine for
about 3 or 4 days but it had a bad connection somewhere, which caused
the sensitivity to drop intermittently, and bad key-bounce. If I could
find a perfect one running off 240 V, I think I'd be sorely tempted.
The audio was the best I've heard and made for really pleasant
listening.

You need to be careful. There were two versions sold. One was 120 volt
ONLY, and the other was a multivoltage unit with a switch in the back.

My 1991 vintage U.S. purchased R5000 is 120 volt only. In my Universal
catalog from 1993, they were selling only the multivoltage unit. In 1996
when I started packing up to move here, I called Universal asking if
they could modify it to 220 volts and was asked "aren't all of them
multivoltage?".

They could not modify it, but it has lived happily here on 230 volts
connected to a 200 "watt" continuous duty transformer for the last
10 years.

The clock does not seem to be affected. I assume it is not dependent
upon the power line frequency.

Geoff.
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