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392
| | Posted on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:16 am: | 
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Has anyone every heard of this unit or know anything about it? |
Tech808
| | Posted on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 12:17 pm: |
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392,
Well, I can give you the information that I have on the Magnum S-3200B Base Radio.
Copper sent me one about 3 weeks ago for testing and evaluation.
The radio does offer you the choice of using AC-110 or 12V for power.
You have Control / Knobs for:
Tone
RF Gain
Mic Gain
Mode
Band's (8)
Volume
Squelch
Clarifier (Both Fine & Coarse)
Standard 1/4 Phone Jack
The Main Board is a: #9821R7
The PLL is a: KS8805BD
(Note, I was unable to find who makes the Board or PLL used in it.)
It uses a single 1969 Final.
It uses both Standard and SMT parts.
After conversion the coverage is: 25.165 thru 28.755
To take full advantage of all the Bands (8) you will need to use an External Frequency Counter.
Lon
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Znut
| | Posted on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 12:48 pm: |
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Is the freq counter jack the FC-390 type?
Also, did you inform the manufacturer of your issues with the radio? I would think to compete with rigs like the Meleka they would try to make it at least as good!?!? |
392
| | Posted on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 4:20 pm: |
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thanks Lon. I'll pass on this one for now. Looked like kind of a neat, low cost unit but it still has to perform well.
392 |
Tech808
| | Posted on Monday, September 29, 2003 - 10:38 pm: |
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Znut,
Yes, the Freq Counter jack is the same as the FC-390 type.
As for the manufacturer, I was unable to find out who made the Board and the PLL Chip let alone who made / assembled the radio.
No names on anything.
Lon
Tech808 |
Hawk447
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 8:58 pm: |
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The freq counter Jack is not a FC-390 connector type. The jack on the back of the radio is an RCA type. |
Tech808
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 10:45 pm: |
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Hawk447,
You are correct, my mistake, it is a RCA Type female plug.
Lon
Tech808 |
Znut
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 - 11:33 pm: |
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Oh, well Magnum didn't think that one out either. It's starting to sound a little crappy.
I wonder why they didn't come up with a decent entry level base rig.
Maybe they will work out some of the quality issues. |
RCI 2990
| | Posted on Saturday, October 11, 2003 - 1:41 am: |
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Thats a sad darn shame too because anymore if a company makes a base radio it turns out to be a big ol' yeller' lemon... Remember the Super Star 4900?? that was a cool looking radio but OMG it was lousy as heck! And a complete failure.......................... :-( |
Hawk447
| | Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2003 - 3:48 pm: |
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Just Curious what were the Quality and Performance issues on the S3200B? |
Hawk447
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 5:07 pm: |
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Please answer my question... e-mail me if you don't want to reply on the forum.
Thank you |
Tech808
| | Posted on Sunday, October 26, 2003 - 7:02 pm: |
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Hawk447,
Answer to your question is Very simple.
It did not meet the requirements / standard's that Copper has set forth for Quality or Performance of the product's it carries.
The main problems were with design work & frequencies.
Lon
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