[Swan] Re: Cubic Repair

[W5JMW John]

Bryan,why get rid of it.I have the 103/psu6/st-3..It is in operation 
daily,mainly sits and monitors wwv.I like to keep it powered up.With the 
earlier technology I (we) can actually work on it.It is a great rig.Truly 
variable agc and if gain makes it a super rig.OK,I am biased,hi...play with 
it,not as your primary radio but certainly one you might want to keep for 
hard times..73 john
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Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 3:52 AM
Subject: [Swan] Re: Cubic Repair


> 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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