On Feb 5, 4:57 am, wrote:
On Feb 5, 3:41 pm, (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:





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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Hi Geoff

Good point. The one I bought from eBay was 120 volt only, so I was a
bit unhappy that I spent good money on a transformer only to send the
radio back within days.

On a different note, how common is the key bounce? Do most units end
up suffering in the long term?

Cheers

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Andy - the R-5000 I have has "mild" key bounce which is not a problem
if you just hit the key solidly and don't hold you finger on it. I
don't find it much of an issue. This particular radio must a have
lived in a damper part of the country because there is light corrosion
on many of the internal pcb screws and some of the metal parts. If any
hydroscopic materials had moisture in them when I got the radio they
have long since dried out in this Arizona air! Despite the minor
cosmetic blemishes which is probably why I got it for so cheap on
Ebay, it's a fabulous performer. I modified the notch filter so it
operates in CW mode (the "peak" filter was a joke on CW) and upgraded
the AM filter plus added the CW filter. It gets a bit hot internally
due to poor ventilation and a hot transformer but there is no drift.
My only complaint is that the tuning is a bit too fast and as such is
touchy on SSB at times.

Regards,

Frank
Tucson, AZ