[Swan] Re: Cubic Repair

[bcarling at cfl.rr.com]

Thanks JOhn - I am actually selling this for a friend more than 
anything else. 
I thought about keeping it here for my station but I have way too 
many radios currently!
(grin!)

On 11 Sep 2005 at 15:53, W5JMW John wrote:

> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
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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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