[Premium-Rx] WJ Quad 8

[Kmec at aol.com]

Greetings All!
 
I usually watch and do not comment, but this time feel compelled. As  one 
of the largest WJ collectors around (still about 800 items, down from  the 
peak of 1300), I feel the Quad 8 is receiving undue praise.
 
While WJ was very proud of it, because it was their first real fully  
synthesized HF receiver, it used "A" series CMOS, which had a lot of faults, and  
the radio was not built really all that well. It was waaaay tough to  
repair! (The filters were OK, Collins "loaf of bread" style, as I  remember.)  I 
owned 2 of these (WJ-8888) and also has an SSQ-80, which was  a Navy variant 
(WJ 8880). Some of my pentagon buddies got me some doc's on it  and it 
seems they were not real happy with them, based on some correspondence I  was 
privy to.
 
The B version was much, much better.
 
These were some of my earliest sales on eBay, as I wanted rid of them.  
Wonder which of you has them now?.....
 
The same is true with REGCO stuff, early synthesizers that you really want  
no parts of. I still have some here, just because I have not made a 
disposal run  to the local surplus place in a while. (5500 and a few others).
 
Regards,
Jeff Kruth