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[email protected] · August 11th 15, 01:09 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

On Monday, August 10, 2015 at 7:34:55 PM UTC-4, BDK wrote:
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On Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 3:30:59 PM UTC-5, wrote:
I have a Japan NRD 525 which I love and is fairly uncomplicated to use, but very recently I've had severe static problems. And I am wondering if something is wrong with my long wire antennas, or is it in the radio? I have another older radio that I hooked up to my antennas and find there is no static so I am led to believe it
is in the radio. Any thoughts or suggestion on where I can go to find out the source of the static, as it is really bad.
John Parrott

Thanks for the suggestions, but something really quirky happened. The static has gone away, and how and why, I don't know. I agree with Simon about the sound quality of the NRD 525, the inboard speaker is not up to par with Japan Radio components. I have a mint condition Panasonic RF-4900 that has excellent sound via inboard
speaker and even better with phones. But the basic problem with static on my NRD 525 has gone away, and that has me puzzled.

Could have just been an intermittent problem and it might come back. I
would still suggest reseating all the boards in it. The internal speaker
on the 525/535/545 receivers is basically for testing purposes only. A
good external, and NOT one of the JRC speakers (Overpriced box with a
junk speaker in it) is a huge improvement. I took out the junk speaker
and added a nice sounding one and added a switchable high cut filter. My
first 525 had a lot of hiss, but the one I have now, a near end of
production one, doesn't have any.

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Re-setting all boards is a very common procedure in any case of electronic malfunction. Sometimes a thin layer of oxidation/corrosion develops at the pcb contact edges or the sockets on the mother board. On the subject of high hissing sound - this was also another typical JRC 'trademark'(and a poorly sounding muffled audio circuitry). Apparently there were some production runs where the gain controls of the IF circuitry were turned to the maximum.. This is not difficult to correct. Both of my JRCs (NRD-505 and NRD-535)had this problem when I first obtained them years ago...