[Swan] Re: Cubic Repair

[bcarling at cfl.rr.com]

Thanks Dave - that is a great tip about Ryan the Cubic repair guy!

I will soon be posting a Cubic 103 for sale with the matching PSU-6
speaker/power supply. This one is in excellent shape and 
everything works as it should. It came from a local ham 
who is moving away. He hated to part with it but he
had too many things to move.

The PTOs and dials all work perfectly on this one and 
it looks almost like new. One other nice thing is that it 
has the complete service manual too.

Any further impressions of the 103 would be appreciated.
I might just fall in love with this radio and keep iot.
The tunable bandwidth on receive is really something else.

On 10 Sep 2005 at 6:38, Dave McCombs wrote:

> 
> Hello all. I've been a member of the group for a while now but have never posted. I wanted to 
> pass along some information to those in the group owning the Cubics.
> 
> I picked up a Cubic 103 off ebay that was pretty much a filthy non-functional unit. Digits were not 
> functional on the display, PTO-B wasnon-functional, the receive audiowas horrible, and there 
> was not much worth keeping. After spending a weekend cleaning it up I realized I had a very 
> nice radio cosmetically and really wanted it to be functional.
> 
> I sent it to Rian, AG4ME out in California. I believe he was once a Cubic employee. He went 
> completely through the radio repairing as he went along, and more importantly seeked out ECO's 
> to perform. He kept the radio and used it for a few weeks monitoring it's performance the entire 
> time. I would get regular emails from him stating his progress, and he even found problems with 
> design that were notdocumented, and corrected them.He found heat related issues that would 
> have eventually lead up to failure and modified circuit components to higher ratings. I have to 
> say, he did more than I could have ever done bringing this radio back to life.
> 
> I've had the 103 back on the air for two weeks now. It performs flawlessly and has become the 
> centerpiece of my station. Every function works perfectly and I am very, very pleased with it. I 
> want to let the group know that in my opinion Rian "IS THE MAN" when it comes to these 
> Cubics. 
> 
> Dave K5FNG
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