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"Buzzygirl" wrote:

Just curious to hear about shortwave receivers that people have owned that
are their longest-operating receivers. How long did they last, and are you
still using them? Did they require major overhaul at any point during their
long lives?

The R8 I once owned worked fine for over a decade. The receivers I own
now are in the single digits in years.

The 7030+ display backlight is failing and I'll have to do something
about it. Any advice appreciated about the display going dark. It looks
like LED's are used for back lighting and they are failing. Some times
they go on and off so it looks like cracked solder connections to the
back lighting LEDs. The display is metal shielded so it looks like a
project to take apart if it is possible to even do that without
destroying the display.

The Drake R8B no problems so far.

The RX-340 had the bulb for the S-meter open. I replaced it with white
LEDS. It looks great and I fiddled with the dropping resistor to it so
the meter illumination and the other displays are balanced. Also had the
receiver quit on me altogether at one point. That problem turned out to
be cracked solder connections in the switching power supply board at the
output connector. All I had to do to fix that was reflow the solder on
the circuit board.

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Telamon
Ventura, California