Higain V
gabes
opinion about them good or bad. It has had a UK27 mod put in.
Steve
gabes
> opinion about them good or bad. It has had a UK27 mod put in.
> Steve
and yes i know its Hygain not Higain
Steve
Mach
Check inside for the Cybernet board number PTBM something or other.
Also is the the 40 channel or the 50 blocker.
The Magnum
buggered up by twiddle merchants. Like the bleep too. I had the MK 2 with
the KC shift as standard and UK 40, and never had a problem with it. Cheers,
The Magnum
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Puck Greenman
>I believe there are 4 or 5 models of the Hygain V.
>Check inside for the Cybernet board number PTBM something or other.
>Also is the the 40 channel or the 50 blocker.
>
Surely the 50 block job was the Midland 600 or 700, or the old
Sommercamp (coffie warmer).
All the rigs that I ever worked on, that had the Cybernet
family of boards in were blocks of 40.
The Concord II, Hygain V, Lafayet(sp), Midland 400(not sure
about the number), the big Presidents, and the
Excaliber, a Hygain V homebase.
The Concord I, by far the better of the two Concord sets, had
a totaly different board
They all used either the 01, or 02, PLL with an external osc.
to give a very wide range of cover.
IIRC, the 50 blockers didnt have that quirky thing with the
channels around 19-20-21, it.s been a long time, memory
fails.
>>I have been given an old Higain five and want to know if anyone has an
>>opinion about them good or bad.
As to whether they were good or bad, depends on what you want
to do with it, IMO they were slighty deaf, and prone to CCI.
Short of rebuilding the front end, there was little you could
do.
The difficulty was getting high Q pots with the same
freq/pinout config
>It has had a UK27 mod put in.
>> Steve
How good the UK40 block is will depend on the version of the
mod.
If the mod does not have its own PLL, then it is off
frequancy, and some of your channels are in the wrong order.
Hope this helps.
As rigs went at the time they were they were, generaly
speaking, not too bad, but they had this horrable "roger
bleeb", that you could hear, even when you could get no mod.
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<mag...@mag2781.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>Cybernet chassis,on the whole, pretty good and reliable but many have been
>buggered up by twiddle merchants. Like the bleep too. I had the MK 2 with
Remember that the Roger Bleep is *very* distinctive...
Cheers,
Jon.
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mach
The hygain V 50 block was also known as a super Hygain V. the beep
sounds a 'bit' like a Amstrad 901 if you ran a Uniden chicken box.
Once did a DX contact and the QSL at other end could not believe I
guessed his rig; yep the Hygain V 50 blocker beep is very unique.
The 50 blocker Hygain lacked the alphas on the mid block but gave a
full channel run otherwise. Colud be set up to give a read out
1-50;1-50;1-50;1-50 or 1-50;51-00;1-50;51-00. the D block at channel
19 UK would show 28 or 78 (27.78125 MHz).
I have only come across 3 versions of a Midland 700 including a freq.
readout jobbie but never a 50 blocker version. And going over topic
even more; Azden did a block of 50 radio which was meant for 28-30
use but could be hacked for CB use (Azden 2800).
Some poeple believe the Nato 2000 was the best of the cybernet export
boards; it could come with a UK40 factory board in one version. Only
problem it HAD to have a better IF stage filler put in. Bleedover the
Nato was infamous for.
And the Nato 2000 used the same board as the Concord III.
The Concord I was the same board as a Jumbo I ; PTBM049 i think ?.
I forget what board the Concord II used.
The UK40 mod for the Cybernet could have a pull down for the freq
XX.500 to XX.125 but normally use of the RIT was the way to get back
on freq. Early Hygains lacked RIT on tranmit and would have to be
opened up by cuting a diode for the mod to work.
Puck Greenman
>Just to follow up and ramble on :-)
>
>The hygain V 50 block was also known as a super Hygain V. the beep
>sounds a 'bit' like a Amstrad 901 if you ran a Uniden chicken box.
You are talking legal rigs with the Amstrad, and when they
came in all the Gonks kame out to play, so I had quit
doctoring and gone off the air by the end of 83.
>
>Once did a DX contact and the QSL at other end could not believe I
>guessed his rig; yep the Hygain V 50 blocker beep is very unique.
Yeah, could set your teeth on edge (:-S
>
>The 50 blocker Hygain lacked the alphas on the mid block but gave a
>full channel run otherwise. Colud be set up to give a read out
>1-50;1-50;1-50;1-50 or 1-50;51-00;1-50;51-00. the D block at channel
>19 UK would show 28 or 78 (27.78125 MHz).
IIRC the Midland 700 had a straight through switch, with the
"a" channels, becus I am damn sure that was the one that I
modified to give continous cover from 25Mz to 30.5Mz.
>
>I have only come across 3 versions of a Midland 700 including a freq.
>readout jobbie but never a 50 blocker version. And going over topic
>even more; Azden did a block of 50 radio which was meant for 28-30
>use but could be hacked for CB use (Azden 2800).
This one that I worked on was a frequancy read out.
>
>Some poeple believe the Nato 2000 was the best of the cybernet export
>boards; it could come with a UK40 factory board in one version.
Yes, I remember those, take the bottom cover off for
instructions how to activate the full capability of the rig.
Only
>problem it HAD to have a better IF stage filler put in. Bleedover the
>Nato was infamous for.
>
Mostly, around here, they were bought by kids who wouldnt have
known bleed over if it bit them.
I did the mods on a couple, but never had need to repair one
so I never got a propper look at the insides.
>And the Nato 2000 used the same board as the Concord III.
>The Concord I was the same board as a Jumbo I ; PTBM049 i think ?.
>I forget what board the Concord II used.
I remember the Jumbo well, but never saw a Concord III.
>
>The UK40 mod for the Cybernet could have a pull down for the freq
>XX.500 to XX.125 but normally use of the RIT was the way to get back
>on freq. Early Hygains lacked RIT on tranmit and would have to be
>opened up by cuting a diode for the mod to work.
>
Any of those mods that I did, was "install customers own", but
the only ones that worked worth a damn were the ones with the
PLL on board.
What was your first rig?
Mine wa a Lafayette HB-23A, with the two big Audio transistors
on the side.
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> so I had quit doctoring and gone off the air by the end of 83.
>
degenerates that think because you can wield a soldering iron and those
around you are completely clueless, you are a whiz with electronics. How
many rigs have you killed or turned into bleed boxes then?
I spent 1/2 hour tonight listening to one such local "expert" in Middlesboro
prattling on about diodes.
Please use a speel chucker as it is getting a bit hard to comprehend your
posts.
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The Magnum
Jon Harris wrote in message <36a4884c...@news.mistral.co.uk>...
>On Sat, 16 Jan 1999 20:24:11 -0800, "The Magnum"
><mag...@mag2781.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Cybernet chassis,on the whole, pretty good and reliable but many have been
>>buggered up by twiddle merchants. Like the bleep too. I had the MK 2 with
>
>Remember that the Roger Bleep is *very* distinctive...
>
>Cheers,
>
my Harvard 420M and most people couldn't tell the difference....until some
bugger nicked it.....sob sob.................
Shane-Antony D'Arcy
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