[Premium-Rx] WJ-8617-8618, WJ-8718 parts from Turkey (and other matters)

[pviappiani at tin.it]

Carrara, Italy, March 13

Hi all:

after having obtained Murat Ayhan's authorization, here is his e-mail address:olvidodranas6218 at gmail.com (i.e.: olvidodranas6218atgmail.com). 
Murat's wife has an eBay shop (anabellee3) on which are often offered W-J parts and cards at cheap prices.Murat Ayhan lives in Ankara, Turkey; of course you can contact him asking info and prices, you can also quote my Premium-Rx post.
Hope these infos can be of help for many friends who need W-J parts.

On other matters:

To Al Royce:
It's very difficult to remotely locate a WJ-8618B fault... but, in general:
if the FM mode malfunction occurs with only one bandwidth selection, for sure the culprit is the corresponding FM Det board (A3A17 to A3A21) and/or its related 21.4 MHz Amp card (A3A9 to A3A13).
If the malfunction occurs with all bandwidth selections, I suggest to look at the following WJ-8618B cards: 
A5A1 Receiver Interface, A3A8 AGC Amplifier and A3A15 Audio-Video-COR. If possible, try to check all components in those cards (in particular all the Tantalum caps) or proceed replacing the above cards one at a time.

To Heinz Breuer:
Many Thanks Heinz for updating about the Coronavirus situation in Germany, I have just received a mail from a Belgian friend and it seems that the situation is (or is becoming) the same everywhere... Incidentally I'm 70!
Hope this situation stops ASAP, for sure this virus is lethal for the world economy!
Best wishes and greetings to you and your wife! About Marzaglia's swapmeet, in my humble opinion it's better not to go there next May... 


Best 73 to all,

Paolo