Been looking at picking up one of these things for years...high school electronics teacher had one in the late 80s and never could get it working quite right. There are usually one or two sets plus assorted spare parts at Dayton...always passed on them for whatever reason.

Reviews of these rigs are a mixed bag. Some people say you'll always be working on them. Most reviewers are very happy with the receiver, which is one of the reasons I decided to grab the rig.

80-10 plus 15MHz WWV and CB (RX only). I'm very tempted to swap a couple of the 10M segments out for the WARC bands, giving me WWV-80-40-20-17-15-12-11-10A-10B in that order.

Right now the unit is waiting on a couple of parts to make it 100% electrical. Then a nice repaint of cabinets and trim rings...fabrication of a cable for the inbound 8010 remote VFO...and possibly replacing the 4-pin "Y"-configuration SMK accessory connector with a DIN-5 unit.

Pic isn't of my lineup but is representative of the station:

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