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On Aug 24, 4:15*pm, "Pete KE9OA" wrote:
I understand John.................actually, the power supply/regulator board is a separate board that is held down with three small screws. The secondary of the power transformer connects to two large pads on the board. The 1uF 100V non polarized cap can be soldered on the underside of the board. Normally, the power supply diodes have a radiated power density that decays pretty quickly above 600kHz or so. The manufacturer must have been using some pretty fast switching diodes when they built this radio. The difference after the mod is day and night.......it is as if a switch was turned off on the interfering source. When I had the radio open, I took a look at the loopstick antenna. It appears to be the same type of twin coil ferrite that is used in the CCRadio Shortwave. One of these days, I will dismantle it further and see if there are any alignment points for the MW range. My unit droops in sensitivity below 540kHz. This is typical of many radios when the loopstick is aligned at 600kHz for the low end of the band. I also noticed this with the Sony 6800W. If you could find a tech in your area, that person would be able to do the power supply mod in about 10 minutes. If you need any more details, feel free to e-mail me anytime at Pete Thanks so much Pete, that's really useful and kind of you. I do have a local ham in the village that is as good as an Olympic swordsman with a soldering iron, so I shall go and ask him. BTW that "The 1uF 100V non polarized cap" that you mention - my set is a RP2100 from China with 240v AC mains, does that alter the value? best of 73's JP in Montagu South Africa |
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