[Kenwood] Kenwood TS-520 or 520ES

[John Geiger]

There was a Kenwood TS520 on ebay yesterday in good
working and physical condition for $185 buy it now,
and that included the CW and SSB filters with it and
installed.

I had a set of 599 twins complete with the 6m and 2m
receive converters. It never did work on 15m, or on 10
meters above 28.600, as the higher ranges had been
dropped 2 mhz in frequency, but it was still a great
setup.  Would love to get another one (that worked on
15m) when I have more space and money.

I think the Kenwood TS900 is the twins put into a
single box.

73s John AA5JG

--- Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> John wrote:
> 
> Thanks to all for the info.  There is one 520S I
> found on e-bay that
> doesn't work and has a buy it  now for $125.00 if I
> recall.  The
> seller doesn't know how to fix it.
> 
> Can someone take a look and see if this is a good
> deal?  Or should I
> pass and spend the extra money and get an
> operational one.
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> I can't find that on the Bay and you didn't provide
> a listing number
> or description. Was it run over by a bus or did the
> magic smoke come
> out of a resitor? If you feel comfortable poking
> around in a rig I
> don't think that price would be excessive. Go for
> it. Get the
> manuals...the original ones if you can and find all
> the info you can
> get about possible mods or failures for that rig -
> the internet is a
> good resource.
> 
> I once steered a friend to a set of Kenwood twins -
> R599/T599  with
> the matching speaker for $250 at a distant swap n
> swindle. The seller
> of course testified to how great the rig worked. It
> didn't work
> (surprise)- even had some missing parts. My friend
> found another one
> he bought from a local ham with new finals for on;y
> $200. I bought the
> defective rig complete for the $200 he paid for the
> working outfit and
> repaired it in an hour for about $15 worth of parts
> (lucky to have a
> good junque box). Later I replaced the tired finals.
> Its 18 years
> later and it is still my main HF rig. I have had to
> repair it a couple
> of times since but it takes a pounding with things
> like Field Day.
> That TS 520 is not very much more difficult to
> service as far as I
> know. A friend of mine had one and inside it looked
> like my 599 twins
> repackaged into one box as a transceiver. Other
> members may be able to
> confirm that or warn you off.
> 
> The radio has some IC's, transistors, tubes (finals
> & driver), and
> other discrete parts on single layer circuit boards.
> The finals are
> socketed in a metal chasis. Bolts and screws gold
> everything firmly
> together. I believe the 520 is made the same way.
> That type of
> construction is very serviceable AND seems to be
> very reliable.
>
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