Hi there. I got the R5000 was salvage from landfill and i am just trying to find a shop in London which can help me to realign and retest the voltages in the radio . I really like it just tune in in the evening and great for listening .
@@RobVK3BVW Hi again and thanks for the response back . Yes because the owner didn't know to much and i keep it and restored most of it and is back working just needs a realignment. And doo to lak of test equipment's is just the voltages are aligned correctly ( according to the service manual ) i managed to get all the filters and the 2 meter band converter . I am going to do the recapping and to 'upgrade' the cooling aluminium at the power supply . I am going to keep you updated Kind regards Rob ( my name is Robert and the short version is Rob )
hi Rob pretty nice receiver, I like mine a lot, too. 😇 Is your mentioned 4kHz IF filter in your rig the one from INRAD? What is your cascaded filter chain: the old simple broad 6kHz leaved in >>> next the 4kHz x-tal INRAD >>> next the 2,4kHz ? Or have you swapped one-to-one the simple broad filter with the x-tal 4kHz one? (there is no picture with the new AM Filter inside) 73
He did a 4 or 5 part series on youtube when he reconditioned his rig a few years back. He swapped out the original plug in 6kHz with a 4 kHz plug in from Inrad. When I did mine, I put in the better 6kHz plug in from Kenwood, removed the SSB filter from it's position and relocated it to the "Narrow" SSB pad, and put the 4 kHz Inrad solder- in filter on the now empty SSB pad, and installed a Kenwood CW filter on it's dedicated pad.
As @SSN515, I took out the old 6kHz plug-in and put the 4kHz in its place. Simple job. There are multiple combinations that can be used here. Thanks for checking out the video.
@@RobVK3BVW You're welcome, I always enjoy your videos. Thank you for your answere, Rob, What I'm interested in is whether the cheap wide filter has also remained in the IF path 😉 Indeed, there are multiple combinations
@@SSN515 Thank you for your comprehensive answere. 😎 My Kenny was cannibalized and the filter robbed by the preowner. There was only the bad AM Filter left. I found one and put in the better YK-88A1 (6 kHz) AM filter, followed by an 4kHz, followed by an wide SSB filter (which I had as a spare part for my Kenny R820), followed by a narrow SSB filter which I found o eBay. It's a pretty good DX rig. Fantastic audio with the cascaded 6 + 4 kHz filters in AM.
@@nixraff7802 OK. I threw away the original 6 kHz filter when I found the 4 kHz plug-in filter worked so well. Some guys will prefer the better 6 kHz filter for listening, I found the 4 kHz filter worked for for me. It's personal preference. Good luck with your receiver.
As a kid growing up I always listened to R.Australia in the UK. I was so happy to get a radio station from so far away. It’s such a shame SW is now dominated by certain countries and certain types of broadcasters with an ‘agenda’. I’ve been looking into privately run SW and MW stations here to see what I could create.
Por cierto, que Dios te bendiga y gracias por esta pieza de historia de la radio venezolana, que el señor siempre esté contigo Cristo pronto haya que arrepentirnos él es nuestro Señor y Salvador y no nos vamos al cielo por ser buenas personas, sino por reconocer su sacrificio.
Good review Rob, would be interested to compare a Barlow Wadley as well which I regret selling, I have a FRG-7 which I fire up from time to time and I wonder how the R-5000 compares to a TS-440 which I compared to my SDR's the other day and it stood up rather well.
G'day Brendan! Great to hear from you! Thanks for the comment. I've never had a Barlow Wadley, so I can't comment on that. You don't see too many of them around here these days, do you? Re. the TS-440 and R-5000, I had an article on the 5000 published in Feb issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine, and part of the article covered the differences between the 440 and the 5000. I'll be posting that article on my Mount Evelyn DX Report blog in May, so watch out for that. Are you still tootin' that trumpet of yours? All the best, mate. Rob VK3BVW
Yes Rob still playing with the trumpet & the stick. The BW's are a great little receiver but when I saw a couple around many years ago they were too pricey to pick up another one. Look forward to the article.
I have a R5000. It was given to me broken and I fixed it. It's still a very nice radio and a good performer. The frg-7 does sound better in a side by side comparison.
very nice demo, enjoyed the upload - have ordered one myself as I use WSPR at home but I think I will take this with me on my POTA activations as well.
Hi Rob .. I noticed where you had the antenna mounted seemed reasonably close to metal roofing and gutters .. how far is the antenna from these ? I am looking at roof mounting mine and would use a 3 meter mast so I am hoping that would be far enough away from the roof sheeting.
Hi Richard. The base of the antenna (below the red choke winding) is just under 1 meter away from the steel roofline. I have noticed no effect of the roof on the antenna. In fact, before it went up to its current location, I tested the antenna for about three weeks on a large tripod (old PA speaker stand) at about 2.5 m off the ground. I got the same SWR readings at ground level as I did when placed above the roof - which I was very pleased about. I suspect that because the antenna is center-fed, it acts independently of objects below it. Thanks for checking out the video.
@@RobVK3BVW thanks for that information Rob .. I was suspecting somewhere around a 2 metre clearance would be sufficient to have no interaction.. 73’s Ric
I remember back in the early 80's when this was my dream radio. Ended up getting an FRG-7700 at the Dayton Hamfest. But I still really like that Panasonic.
Im a devout trio/kenwood "rx" guy!! First radio (aged 10) was the Trio 9r59de. I do have an R5000 now for rx. I have a yaesu ft-920 transceiver but despite its DSP, Filtering, and far more updated receive tuner.... Well, the R5000 is an R5000..... and i dont care how fast your car is!! Shes a beaut.
I enjoyed this. After reading all the comments, I am amused no one pick-up on the concept you were testing two different technologies; Wadley Loop vs Double SuperHeterodyne.
Thanks for this video Rob! I'm running a Yaesu FT-991a and was trying to use all the 'online' advice about keeping the ALC as low as possible and couldn't seem to get much power output. After talking with Yaesu technical support they mentioned as you did that on their radios you do need some ALC present on the meter. I'm going to try some of the other tips you mentioned as well...Thanks again for the great vid! 73, Corey KD0SAS
Hi Corey. Thanks for your feedback and comments. Much appreciated. FT8 is such a great mode for those of us without "super stations" running multi-band beams on towers at 100 feet, etc. Although the video is more than four years old now, I think I'm pretty happy with the advice there. Although I don't seem to need the notch filter tip - I suspect that may be of more help to those with many other hams living in close proximity. Down here in the lower southeastern part of Australia, there are not many local hams and the population is more spread out. If you hear/see me on the air, please give me a call! All the best, Corey. - Rob VK3BVW
I thought the seafront picture was of Durban which I visited in 1994. I remember the RSA interval tune and regularly heard it in the UK in the 1970s on 25790khz
I believe the service that followed English in your recording is actually Mongolian 🤨 Nevertheless, good catch! VOM is very difficult to catch in Europe, even in Asia in fact. Their afternoon broadcasts on 12015 kHz always collide with Voice of Korea, including 1430z English, announced as beaming Europe, I'm sure it's not! 😆 At least their off-frequenciness helps spot them if you look closer to 12015 kHz on an SDR... but that's all I can do with them 🙁
Whoops! You are absolutely correct! Thank you. I knew that! I have no idea why I wrote Mandarin! Yes, VoM is difficult here for much of the time. It seems that propagation needs to be just right between Ulaanbaatar and Mount Evelyn to really achieve good reception. Coupled with the hummy transmitter and the somewhat muffled audio at times, it's a challenge. Cheers, Arnie - Rob VK3BVW
Good question! This station is registered to operate on 12085 kHz. But for years, it has been on the low side of this frequency. It could possibly be a fault in the transmitter that cannot be fixed (spare parts can be hard to obtain for some older shortwave transmitters), or the transmitter has some other issue. The background hum we hear throughout this video is another of this transmitter's faults. Perhaps for some stations, it's a case of "near enough is good enough"! :-) As our radios have become more advanced, frequency readout is more accurate. So we see off-frequency operation more commonly these days. Thanks for the question, Nathan. - Rob VK3BVW
Darrin - It was the first time I had been there with a radio. I was so impressed with the low-noise floor - except for all the lightning static, which we cannot do much about! It's a great spot, so I think you'll enjoy your next visit with your receiver. I'm going to head out there again soon. Cheers, Rob
Wow if only I had known about this catch as a kid although I doubt it was receivable in California.BTW Rugen is a beautiful and historically interesting island…..visited several years ago.
