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Well, I visited my tech last night, and it just so happened that he was working on a Galaxy 48T. I have a couple things to say about this radio. Some good; some bad.
First off, the boards look like a refurbished Ranger 6300 boards. Burnt traces, solder blobs, and replaced parts are all over this radio. It honestly looks like a Mirage or Virage on the inside. I was very, very displeased with this. I do not know what they are using for boards, but this is worse than ridiculous.
Second off, the radio has a double knob on the top left that sticks out too far. This knob is having to be replaced or repaired on almost every radio that we checked out. When in shipping, the knob is forced into the microphone and cord, and then shoved into place by the Styrofoam box. Very bad design guys.
Ok, with the bad stuff out of the way, we can move on.
We were both really impressed with this radio as far as power is concerned. It appears that RCI has finally fixed the amp problems that have been notorious on the Turbo radios. By adding on 3300pF cap, the amp cleans up very well, and has very little harmonics. After a complete alignment, the radio was showing 300 watts on the PEP meter. Obviously, this isn't right. So the next step was to add additional filtering, and the compression mod. After doing this, the radio showed 240 watts PEP on a Bird 43P. Now, I know, I'm just as skeptical as you are. But, when monitoring the radio on an o'scope, it looks very, very clean. No spikes, no flat tops, no 3rd, 5th, 7th... harmonics. All in all, this is not a bad radio.
We are thinking about experimenting with this radio a little. Since the radio has one 2166 driving one 1969, we had an idea. You all know about the Mega Pack that EEI sold. well, if we installed the Mega Pack, adding an additonal 1969 final, the radio would swing more, without the amp. Now, this is too much for the 2 2290's (in essence), but would not be too much for 2 2879's. Now with the built-in fan, I think this radio would still operate very cool. Anyways, we will test it and see what happens. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT="
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at: 8/22/02 10:20:24 am
First off, the boards look like a refurbished Ranger 6300 boards. Burnt traces, solder blobs, and replaced parts are all over this radio. It honestly looks like a Mirage or Virage on the inside. I was very, very displeased with this. I do not know what they are using for boards, but this is worse than ridiculous.
Second off, the radio has a double knob on the top left that sticks out too far. This knob is having to be replaced or repaired on almost every radio that we checked out. When in shipping, the knob is forced into the microphone and cord, and then shoved into place by the Styrofoam box. Very bad design guys.
Ok, with the bad stuff out of the way, we can move on.
We were both really impressed with this radio as far as power is concerned. It appears that RCI has finally fixed the amp problems that have been notorious on the Turbo radios. By adding on 3300pF cap, the amp cleans up very well, and has very little harmonics. After a complete alignment, the radio was showing 300 watts on the PEP meter. Obviously, this isn't right. So the next step was to add additional filtering, and the compression mod. After doing this, the radio showed 240 watts PEP on a Bird 43P. Now, I know, I'm just as skeptical as you are. But, when monitoring the radio on an o'scope, it looks very, very clean. No spikes, no flat tops, no 3rd, 5th, 7th... harmonics. All in all, this is not a bad radio.
We are thinking about experimenting with this radio a little. Since the radio has one 2166 driving one 1969, we had an idea. You all know about the Mega Pack that EEI sold. well, if we installed the Mega Pack, adding an additonal 1969 final, the radio would swing more, without the amp. Now, this is too much for the 2 2290's (in essence), but would not be too much for 2 2879's. Now with the built-in fan, I think this radio would still operate very cool. Anyways, we will test it and see what happens. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/smile.gif ALT="
"> Check us out on the web at <a href=http://www.pacetronics.com>Pacetronics</a>
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