[NJARC] Service manual needed for Panasonic RF-888

[Louis]

Thanks Al, Joe and Aaron for the help. I had looked and looked for a 
manual and found others have also inquired about a service manual for 
the RF-888 w/o any success. Al, you did your homework but - there's 
always a fly in the ointment, this fly is called, "Panasonic".

The saying that a rose by any other name is still a rose doesn't apply 
to Panasonic radios, even if they look alike. I have the "RF-888", you 
provided me with a manual for the "RF-888JB" but wait, there's more! 
There's also the RF-888LP and the Cougar RF-888 and National Panasonic 
GX-300 - all basically the same model, different circuitry!

I had stumbled onto this a few days ago by looking at all the web pages 
with 888 models, lots and lots of them. Think it was RadioMuseum that 
showed the circuitry of the GX-300 (888JB) it shows two TO-66 style 
transistors (2SB473 - Germanium PNP) heat sinked by a large piece of 
aluminum on one board. The RF-888 I have has two TO-126 style 
transistors (2SC1568 - Silicon NPN) sinked by, ah, a piece of tin foil 
by comparison. I think they upper the output wattage for the speaker on 
those other models. Might I be able to get more gain and up my speaker's 
output wattage or is this not recommended/easy to do?

However, I do believe the manual you found will allow me to adjust the 
dial scale film on my radio but I will have to look closely at the 
circuitry before I attempt anything else. Panasonic made some great 
radios, but each model could have different bands depending on the 
country it was sold in and therefore different circuits too.

Thanks all.

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> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:47:59 -0500
> From: Aaron Hunter <ahunter01 at comcast.net>
> To: Louis <louis2000 at att.net>
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> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Service manual needed for Panasonic RF-888
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> Looked in the Sam's index, but this model is not listed.
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> Aaron Hunter
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> Louis wrote:
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>> Just picked up an RF-888 and it needs to be disassembled for cleaning 
>> and repair. I couldn't find a S.M. on eBay so if anyone has one, 
>> especially if it's already digitized (have one on paper? I'd buy it 
>> from you) let me know. If anyone has disassembled one to adjust the 
>> frequency readout ribbon (it's way off) let me know what this entails, 
>> thanks.
>> ______________________________________________________________
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> Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 20:49:50 -0500
> From: Al Klase <ark at ar88.net>
> To: njarc at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [NJARC] Service manual needed for Panasonic RF-888
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> A little creative Googling, and I got luck.  See attached. - Al Klase
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> On 1/5/2017 7:47 PM, Aaron Hunter wrote:
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>> Looked in the Sam's index, but this model is not listed.
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>> Aaron Hunter
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>> Louis wrote:
>>> _________________________________________________________
>>> Just picked up an RF-888 and it needs to be disassembled for cleaning 
>>> and repair. I couldn't find a S.M. on eBay so if anyone has one, 
>>> especially if it's already digitized (have one on paper? I'd buy it 
>>> from you) let me know. If anyone has disassembled one to adjust the 
>>> frequency readout ribbon (it's way off) let me know what this 
>>> entails, thanks.
>>> ______________________________________________________________
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