"RadioGuy" wrote in message
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Brian Hill wrote in message
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I just bought these two off Ebay and was wondering if anybody has any
experience with these two radios. I bought em both for obvious collector
reasons. The R-530 has the Wadley loop circuit which I'm interested in.
And
I got the SW1 because it's one of the first micro portables with descent
performance and I collect Sony's. I would like to find the Original
Barlow
Wadley XCR-30 someday.

Brian:

The Sony SW1 is an excellent performer for its size. I took mine the
world
over and it served me just fine. There is a problem which plagues the
little receiver and that is the decoupling capacitor in the audio
amplifer---they need changing. Nearly every SW1 that I know of (including
mine) required replacement of those capacitors---and the job is not for
the
faint of heart. The radio will play just fine with earbuds but with
speaker
it just makes a loud buzz.

I wrote a detailed service note that I posted to this newsgroup about two
or
three years ago---do a search under SW1 and RadioGuy and I think you will
find it.

RG



Hi RG. Yes I've saved your service notes. I think a lot of the early Sony's
had cap problems. I've fixed two Pro80s that had cap problems too. Thanks

B.H.