[Premium-Rx] Plessey PR 2280 receiver series

[John Green]

Michael and Nigel

Well I hate to disagree slightly with you both :-) but there's what the
manual says and then there's the radios themselves.

I'm sitting here looking at three radios - two are marked "HF Receiver PRS
2280" on the front panel and one of these is marked "PRS 2280 HF Receiver"
on the rear cover.  The second has the rear cover missing.  The third radio
is marked "HF Receiver PRS 2282A" on the front panel and again "PRS 2280 HF
Receiver" on the rear cover.

All receivers have the normal front panel - tuning knob, displays, lots of
buttons etc but the 2282A has the digital BFO, a full set of 6 filters,
rather than 4 or 5 in the 2280s, and the addition of FM mode. Looking at the
back panel at least 1 of the modules in the 2282A has different output
connectors compared to the 2280.  It's a bit hard to read the module
designations themselves as Plessey wrote them on to the labels by hand and
the ink tends to fade after a while.

Based on this, it looks like the series is the 2280 but there seems to be an
actual 2280 receiver, with a proper front panel and a 2282A receiver with a
proper front panel and some extra features.  It's a mystery why this does
not appear to be the case according to the manual.

Regards

John Green




----- Original Message ----- 
From: <GandalfG8 at aol.com>
To: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] Plessey PR 2280 receiver series


>
> In a message dated 06/02/2008 23:04:10 GMT Standard Time,
> machine.age at comcast.net writes:
>
> Gents
>
> Its all in Osterman's book.  I owned all these rigs.  The 2280 is the
> predecessor of the 82, not the overall series.
>
> The 82  added some features, see Osterman. If you don't own a copy, get
one.
>
> John England
>
>
>
> -----------------
> Hi John
>
> Much as I think Osterman is a great book it does contain errors.
> I haven't got my copy to hand but I do have the 2280 manual in front  of
me
> and what you're saying directly contradicts what Plessey had so say  about
> their own receivers so I'm afraid this looks to be one of those  errors.
>
> All models are marked 2280, but the 1985 Plessey manual specifically
refers
> to the receivers as the 2280 "series" and identifies two main  models.
> These are the 2281 and 2282 as Michael noted, with their module
> configuration identified in Table 1 right at the beginning of the manual
followed by a
> comment that the configuration of model 2283 varies according to
application.
>
> Again as Michael commented, the 2281 and 2282 share all modules except for
> the front panel.
> The all singing all dancing "2280", with full front panel controls etc,
> really is the 2282 and that's straight from the horses mouth.
>
> Dave, if you'd like a pdf copy of the manual email me off list and I'll
sort
> out getting a copy to you.
>
> regards
>
> Nigel
> GM8PZR
>
>
>
>
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