Good! I'm sure you'll be able to work something out... and it will be well worth it.Originally Posted by K9CCH
Did you know that Kenwood used to OEM some of the Astron supplies for use with their HF rigs? Believe it... I used to sell them, back in the day. At the time, the RS-20A was $99 MSRP, the Kenwood version (KPS-20? I'm not recalling the exact model number offhand) $149. I could put the two side by side, the only difference was the side of the front panel that the power switch was mounted on. Yet people would buy the Kenwood version... think about that one. (And no, they didn't "match" the Kenwood HF rig du jour, which was the TS-430S... the official matching PS with speaker was $199 MSRP)
I've used Astron supplies since I owned a 430 back in the day... mid 1980's. I've had exactly two problems. Bridge rectifier blew in the first RS-20A, which I bought used... and may have been caused by my brother-in-law, which is another story. Replaced it, and the unit performed flawlessly until I disposed of it with the 430 (also another story). Second RS-20 (also got used, trade with W3SRL) ran multiple rigs over about 15 years. It was powered on almost continuously during that time, until a power surge took out the voltage regulator board. Bought the RS-35A noted above to replace it, it was cheaper than buying a replacement board from Astron. KB3ERQ now has that unit, to experiment with to see if he can get it going again.
I've also had an RS-12A (been running the V/UHF rig for over 25 years), a couple of RS-7's, and a host of others from time to time. Treat them decently, they'll run almost forever.
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