[Premium-Rx] ROM or EPROM losing its content

[Peter Rovardi]

Hello all,
I think that Toronto Surplus & Scientific is carring two of these rx,s in 
stock.
Wonder if anybody has contacts there for info? One can only try.
Interesting info about Ralph E Grim!

Peter G4HSB




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Schofield" <davesc50 at tiscali.co.uk>
To: <michaelob666 at ntlworld.com>; <Premium-Rx at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] ROM or EPROM losing its content


> Hi,
>
> REGCO stands for Ralph E Grim company.
> As far as I know Ralph was the lead designer for both CEI and a lot of WJ 
> stuff, but fell out with the management after one of the many takovers and 
> set up on his own in competition with WJ.
>
> As far as an EPROM dump for one of these, I would think Steve Pappin, or 
> possibly Terry O would be the best bet, but it'a pretty rare beast.
>
> Good luck, and welcome to the group,
> Dave.S.Michael O'Beirne <michaelob666 at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Gents
>
> I recall from distant memory that REGGCO was a breakaway from the slightly
> incestuous EW group of WJ, Nems-Clarke and Norlin and my 1991/92 "Jane"
> gives the location as Rockville, Maryland, which is deffo EW/CIA type
> country! The entry is for the RG-5545A and it's not dissimilar to the 
> Racal
> RA1795, but it does have real meters and a small CRT.
>
> Does anyone know any more?
>
> I suspect the chances of a manual being available is more than remote.
>
> 73s
> Michael
> G8MOB
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Heinz Breuer" <hbreuer at debitel.net>
> To: "Борис Никитин" <ua3mcj at mail.ru>
> Cc: <premium-rx at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 8:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Premium-Rx] ROM or EPROM losing its content
>
>
>>
>>> Hello everybody in premium-rx groop,
>>>
>>> I'm a new member of the groop and first of all I would like to wish good
>>> health and my respect for everyone in that interested groop.
>>> One more things- English language is not my native, so if some thing's
>>> going wrong with it I'm very sorry.
>>>
>>> Recently I bought on e-Bay VHF/UHF Receiver REGCO RG-5500 really rare 
>>> and
>>> very interested for me.
>>> It not working condition, so repair needed. I'm OK with hardware, but 
>>> not
>>> so good with software...Now I started to collect
>>> information for repair and opinion of groop members will be very
>>> appreciated. ROM or EPROM losing content
>>> that is a common problem for receivers 30 years age or so? Or it happen
>>> not so often? Because RG-5500
>>> very rare what a chance to recover ROM/EPROM content if any? Receiver
>>> underway now to my location, so
>>> for me that is most important things to know...(That receiver was disign
>>> by REGCO to competite with WJ 8617)
>>> Best Regards for All
>>>
>>> Boris Nikitin
>>> UA3MCJ
>
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