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.


--
73 and good DXing.
Brian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire!
Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/

The Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 was an amazing radio in its day and well worth
adding to a collection. You can still find them in good condition in South
Africa for about $80, but shipping costs to the USA would kill you.
(probably $80/100!)

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Sony 7600D GE SRIII
BW XCR 30, Braun T1000, Sangean 818 & 803A.
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"Brian Hill" wrote in message
...
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.


--
73 and good DXing.
Brian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire!
Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/

"Brian Hill" ) writes:
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.

Look again, the Galaxy does not use a Wadley loop.

It uses a phase locked loop synthesizer to generate the first local oscillator
signal every 500KHz (or is it 1MHz in the Galaxy?).

A Wadley loop, while providing the same overall effect, is a result of the
right mixing, adding and subtracting, in the signal chain.

What confuses people is that the design of the synthesizer in the Galaxy
uses a similar bit to the Wadley, putting the reference frequency through a
multiplier that puts out signals at every harmonic of that reference. IN
the Wadley, that signal is used to generate the needed beat signals, in
the Galaxy that signal is compared to the local oscillator in a phase detector
to lock the local oscillator.

Visually change the multiplier to a programmable divider chain, and in the
Galaxy you'd have a more recognizeable synthesizer. It just came before
programmable dividers were cost effective, just as the case with the
National HRO-500, so they went with the muliplier, though there is a
tradeoff in use and performance compared to a synthesizer with a programmable
divider.

Change the mulitplier in the Wadley to a divider, and the thing won't work at
all.

Michael

"John Plimmer" wrote in message
...
The Barlow-Wadley XCR-30 was an amazing radio in its day and well worth
adding to a collection. You can still find them in good condition in South
Africa for about $80, but shipping costs to the USA would kill you.
(probably $80/100!)

Hi John. I'll take one if you find it and give you a finders fee. Please
remember me if you find one.


--
73 and good DXing.
Brian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire!
Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/

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"Michael Black" wrote in message
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"Brian Hill" ) writes:
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.

Look again, the Galaxy does not use a Wadley loop.

It uses a phase locked loop synthesizer to generate the first local
oscillator
signal every 500KHz (or is it 1MHz in the Galaxy?).

A Wadley loop, while providing the same overall effect, is a result of the
right mixing, adding and subtracting, in the signal chain.

What confuses people is that the design of the synthesizer in the Galaxy
uses a similar bit to the Wadley, putting the reference frequency through
a
multiplier that puts out signals at every harmonic of that reference. IN
the Wadley, that signal is used to generate the needed beat signals, in
the Galaxy that signal is compared to the local oscillator in a phase
detector
to lock the local oscillator.

Visually change the multiplier to a programmable divider chain, and in the
Galaxy you'd have a more recognizeable synthesizer. It just came before
programmable dividers were cost effective, just as the case with the
National HRO-500, so they went with the muliplier, though there is a
tradeoff in use and performance compared to a synthesizer with a
programmable
divider.

Change the mulitplier in the Wadley to a divider, and the thing won't work
at
all.

Michael


Hum? I'm just going by what I read. Fred Ostermans book needs an update!
Where did you get your info? The tech manual? Thanks


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73 and good DXing.
Brian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/

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Hum? I'm just going by what I read. Fred Ostermans book needs an update!
Where did you get your info? The tech manual? Thanks


The block diagram and the description in the review for the receiver in
CQ magazine back in 1968; the receiver was on the cover.

Plus, all the ads at the time never mentioned the Wadley loop.

This is not the first time people have ascribed the Wadley to the Galaxy
(and the HRO-500 for that matter). I've always assumed they didn't didn't
grasp the differences and were making a leap based on some information.
But if such a standard as Osterman's book makes the mistake, maybe everyone4
is getting the misinformation from that.

Micahel

"Michael Black" wrote in message news:cn89b9

The block diagram and the description in the review for the receiver in
CQ magazine back in 1968; the receiver was on the cover.

Plus, all the ads at the time never mentioned the Wadley loop.

This is not the first time people have ascribed the Wadley to the Galaxy
(and the HRO-500 for that matter). I've always assumed they didn't didn't
grasp the differences and were making a leap based on some information.
But if such a standard as Osterman's book makes the mistake, maybe
everyone4
is getting the misinformation from that.

Micahel


I don't know? He doe's list lots of receivers in his book so there's bound
to be a few mistakes.


--
73 and good DXing.
Brian
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A lot of radios and 100' of rusty wire!
Zumbrota, Southern MN
Brian's Radio Universe
http://webpages.charter.net/brianhill/

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Brian Hill wrote in message
...
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

"RadioGuy" wrote in message
...

Brian Hill wrote in message
...
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.

In article ,
Brian Hill wrote:

"Michael Black" wrote in message
...

"Brian Hill" ) writes:
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.

Look again, the Galaxy does not use a Wadley loop.

It uses a phase locked loop synthesizer to generate the first local
oscillator
signal every 500KHz (or is it 1MHz in the Galaxy?).

A Wadley loop, while providing the same overall effect, is a result of the
right mixing, adding and subtracting, in the signal chain.

What confuses people is that the design of the synthesizer in the Galaxy
uses a similar bit to the Wadley, putting the reference frequency through
a
multiplier that puts out signals at every harmonic of that reference. IN
the Wadley, that signal is used to generate the needed beat signals, in
the Galaxy that signal is compared to the local oscillator in a phase
detector
to lock the local oscillator.

Visually change the multiplier to a programmable divider chain, and in the
Galaxy you'd have a more recognizeable synthesizer. It just came before
programmable dividers were cost effective, just as the case with the
National HRO-500, so they went with the muliplier, though there is a
tradeoff in use and performance compared to a synthesizer with a
programmable
divider.

Change the mulitplier in the Wadley to a divider, and the thing won't work
^^^^^^^^^^
Minor quibble: comb generator (or something like that)

at
all.



Michael


Hum? I'm just going by what I read. Fred Ostermans book needs an update!
Where did you get your info? The tech manual? Thanks

There was a really good thread on the Wadley Loop in the
rec.radio.amateur.homebrew newsgroup several years back.

The really cool feature was how the first oscillator was used to mix
both the incoming RF (to the frequency range of the 1 MHz wide first
IF), and (with another mixer) to tune one of the harmonics out of the
comb generator into the range of a narrow bandpass filter. This was
amplified and mixed with a crystal oscillator (in such a way that the
offset/drift of the first LO was inverted) and that was used as the
second LO to mix the first IF down to the second IF's frequency range.
So as long as the harmonic of the reference was in the range of the
synth's bandpass filter, the offset and drift of the first LO was
canceled.

How good is a FRG-7 with intermod, though?

Mark Zenier Washington State resident