John S. wrote in message
oups.com...

The receiver has been re-assembled and everything is working properly;
tuning is as it should be. It will be interesting to see how long the
repaired encoder lasts. I had the encoder replaced under warranty
repair by
Drake twice before.


So this is the third repair of the same component on a radio that costs
over $1,000?? Wow - not exactly confidence inspiring.

Yes... Well... The topic (R8B) resulted in hundreds of posts... In my
opinion, the receiver was never developed to its full potential. I've had
mine since January, 1998 and I use it daily---it's on for 10 hours or more.
It needs to be re-aligned; it no longer zero beats WWV dead on like it did
new, the passband offset is centered at 1:00 O'Clock and the notch drifts.
The receiver was never worth what Drake was asking. I think a proper
purchase price would have been around $600 new.

RG