I picked up this receiver at the spring Nearfest meet in NH, I thought it looked nifty and rolled the dice it might actually work. I powered it up with 24v and after a brief pause it came to life, I tuned around and was listening to several stations, my joy was short lived, after 20 minutes of bliss a fuse popped.

I asked a friend if he was willing to see what happened and the initial failure was a buffer capacitor on the main winding had shorted to ground, he said I was lucky it didn't take out the winding. He ended up changing out multiple if not all capacitors that tested bad, how this even worked at all is amazing, the selenium components were also replaced. After an alignment it now outperforms the stated rx sensitivity and it is working great. The angry 5 now has a permanent home in the shack with the other green monsters, a great big thanks to my friend for all his hard work bringing this back to life.

Naughty components.

Mark

K1HF