He warned me when I bought it - I'd never seen the inside and made the classic "Renovation Realities" statement: "How hard can it be?"
I bought a cosmetically beautiful SPR-4. The outside and chassis on this thing are 9.7/10. The ugly secret: the AGC board was removed, repaired and now needs to go back in. I am not lying in saying there are about 25 wires that will have to be re-soldered onto this board. Apparently, this was one of the last point-to-point wired radios and there's darn good reason why they started using connectors! The majority of these wires appear to be 26 AWG and look identical. I have a schematic but from what I see, Drake didn't see fit to call out the wires to the board or even identify where the board is! I'm not out a super amount of money on this, but I would like to get it going again as sort of a long-term puzzle project. Does anyone have more information on which components are mounted on this board? It also appears that this board does NOT have a switch wafer and I'm told that it didn't - just a pass-through of the shaft for the MODE control. I'd also like to find a power cord. I see that you can power this off either AC or 12V (nominal) DC. I can kludge some Amphenol pins to slip over the 12V ones if I must, but I'd love to have an AC cord. How many crystals came with this? Yes, Garey, I got the one you heard about on the net recently. I figure I can putter around with it if I can only get more info on it. I've never owned one of these before. 73, and I guess I'm now fully addicted... Steve Wedge, W1ES/4 I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine. -Ayn Rand. All my computers have my signature with various pearls of wisdom appended thereto.
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