Realistic dx-300 purchase
On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 9:56:39 AM UTC-4, dave wrote:
On 03/19/2013 07:53 PM, m II wrote:
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Bought used for 90 dollars. It seems well worth it. No scratches and
no corrosion in the battery compartment. Model 1A9 serial 8-0057XX.
Build quality is good, but the controls are a bit on the wobbly side.
Better than the tuning knob on the early Grundig Satellit 800, however.
Once I got it home and practiced learning the controls it started to
remind me of the FRG-7 sitting in the other room. The Barlow-Wadley
tuning scheme is almost identical, with just the location of the knobs
changed to protect the innocent.
At first, the preselector tuning, which is a rotary knob turning a
wide, frequency marked belt was frozen. A minutes of twisting back and
forth has loosened it up nicely. Pure luck, no doubt.
The reception is nowhere near as bad as some have reported. I tied a
three foot wire to the high impedance terminal and got the 10 Mhz time
signal right away. Cuba, at around 6060 Mhz (I forget the exact
frequency...) came in very well also. There was no ground wire attached.
The Digital readout is right on, despite the analog tuning circuitry
driving it.
Is anyone aware of weak points in this set? Any preventive medicine to
delay an early death?
As an extra bonus, the seller threw in a Patrolman 9 at no charge. He
had received it in trade for a half empty bottle of Jack Daniels. It
appears Holland MI is just crawling with derelict neighbours.
mike
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I traded mine and a Bearcat 1000 for 2 [ea] R-390As
What condition were the 390A's ?
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