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In article .com,
says... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5895 535&rd=1 Interesting price. Remember ?? a couple of months back I posted an inquiry saying I found one of these in working conditon on a back shelf in the stock room at work...did anyone have any doc's to assist my restoration ?? The radio is currently in service in our undergrad analog circuits lab so the students can listen to something more interesting than top 40's when they're in there after hours trying to finish up. It still needs an unkludged bandswitch knob, and I'd love to have a copy of the alinement data. |
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wrote in message ups.com... wrote: My wife and son are both E.E.'s and their explanation is that IC's begin to degrade slowly as a result of impurituies in the wafer. Simple components like capacitors dry out and resistors begin to open up. Wish I knew more, but I can hear what they tell me in the radios I've owned. I owned one of the comparison radios, the Panasonic RF5000b. Big beast of a 24 pound radio with four antennas. It was pretty insensitive by any measure. Sure it would catch the big nighttime SW's but that was about it. Other radios, such as a Radio Shack DX150b were still pretty sensitive (and still raspy sounding) after 25 years, so the rate of degradation isn't a constant. Do a net search on "eletro-migration". Over time the electrons carry some of the ions that make junctions either P or N. Electro-migration increases with heat, I think it doubles for every 3C degree increase. This is why overclocking CPUs cn lead to unexpected failures. So, does that mean it might not be a bad idea to do some restoration work (or have it done) on the newer radios when they reach 20 years or so, sort of like the older tube radios?? I imagine that the caps last longer than the old paper caps or black beauties, but fixing up an R-70 or an FRG-7700 (if in otherwise decent shape) hadn't occured to me before. --Mike L. |
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I guess it all depends on the age of the radio(s) and how much they need
restoring and how much one wants to spend.We have some Very stormy weather here right now (Jackson,Mississippi) with straight line winds and at 3:55 PM this afternoon,I thought that gust of wind was going to blow my house over. www.wapt.com is the best tv station here for constant stormy weather reports.There isn't anything that scares me worst than tornados.Emergency vehicles have been going along Highway 80 since not long after daybreak this morning and they are still going right now. cuhulin |
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I've had two Sony CRF-5100s in my time. The first I bought was from a school
rummage sale about 15 years ago for $8. Another was from a hamfest a few years ago for $85. Neither was terribly impressive and I sold them for roughly what I had in them. "BDK" wrote in message ... A friend's dad had a huge collection of receivers from the late 50's until he died in 1981, and this was one of the portables. The Sony wasn't great when it was new, let alone now... |
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Michael Lawson wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... wrote: My wife and son are both E.E.'s and their explanation is that IC's begin to degrade slowly as a result of impurituies in the wafer. Simple components like capacitors dry out and resistors begin to open up. Wish I knew more, but I can hear what they tell me in the radios I've owned. I owned one of the comparison radios, the Panasonic RF5000b. Big beast of a 24 pound radio with four antennas. It was pretty insensitive by any measure. Sure it would catch the big nighttime SW's but that was about it. Other radios, such as a Radio Shack DX150b were still pretty sensitive (and still raspy sounding) after 25 years, so the rate of degradation isn't a constant. Do a net search on "eletro-migration". Over time the electrons carry some of the ions that make junctions either P or N. Electro-migration increases with heat, I think it doubles for every 3C degree increase. This is why overclocking CPUs cn lead to unexpected failures. So, does that mean it might not be a bad idea to do some restoration work (or have it done) on the newer radios when they reach 20 years or so, sort of like the older tube radios?? I imagine that the caps last longer than the old paper caps or black beauties, but fixing up an R-70 or an FRG-7700 (if in otherwise decent shape) hadn't occured to me before. You can't restore ICs, of course, but you can replace auxilary transistors, capacitors, resistors, etc. I know that some of the older transistorized clock radios (the ones made in Japan prior to the microchip age) tended to have the radio die gradually over time. This happened prior to the motor which flipped the numbers dying. I know that happened to an old 1971 Juliette which was my first radio. The radio gradually got weaker and weaker and finally went silent, then the numbers stopped turning. Those clock radios were pretty cheaply made and were not worth restoring, but a tabletop SW radio like a 7700 would definitely be worth restoring if it was otherwise pretty good. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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Collectors have a whole different set of reasons for buying a radio than users. Compare the price for that radio with the $600.00 for an FRG-7, $800.00 for a Sony 6800, $3,000 for a SonyCRF320 or $800.00 for a Zenith TO. Prices no user would contemplate, but several collectors would not blink twice at. The Sony you mentioned was one of many luggable radios in it's time. It probably priced out lower than but was meant to compete as a reasonably priced alternative to the Panasonic Rf-5000a, Zenith TO, Nordmende & Grundig offerings. All were reasonable performing radios in their time with notably pleasant audio - much mellower than anything found today. In all cases time will have taken a toll on their electronics and there's a good chance controls will be noisy, dial accuracy will be frustrating, plastic started to fade, etc. For my purposes the Sony would be fun to use for a while, but that's about it. That there have been 32 bids to date tells me there's more than one collector that have a different view. wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5895 535&rd=1 Don't forget the GE World Monitor, another competitor in the TO type radio derby of the 60s. I have an early version of the World Monitor, a P990C that my grandfather bought new in 1964. He bought it for the FM band, this at a time when most small transistor radios were MW only. He paid $100 for it, which was a lot of money in 1964. It still works well, and has the original AC adaptor (he used it in his auto repair shop). I could probably get $800 for it on ebay, not that I would risk the wrath of my grandfather by doing so. Note that the seller has amended his auction to argue that the Sony is worth $400. He originally put it up for $19.95. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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For a well designed integrated circuit, the most likely thing to fail
is the package, which in turn leads to failure in the bonding. Consumer grade electronics use porous plastic packages, while the military forks out for ceramic. It is possible to get ion contaminator from how the wafers were handled (such as a moron touching the edge), but the associated threshold shifts show up very soon. I'm not sure if you can find this on the net, but all the IC companies do some sort of die seal to reduce this problem. I'd blame the capacitors, especially tantalum. Resistors should be stable. Regarding electromigration, this is also well understood and compensated for in the design process. I can tell you that most chips coming to a failure analysis lab are damaged by electrical overstress. Often a power surge will shoot right through the power supply and zap some chip. [Some radios are "always on" if hooked up to the AC mains, so a radio that is off can get zapped.] Second comes latch-up related problems, not exactly the fault of the chip, i.e. all chips using reverse biased diode isolation will latch under some external conditions. |
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