Recent content by sachabinky

Actually, my mistake,,- it was an 18 Channel Belcom that we had,,I just managed to get hold of the very same unit and intend to restore it to full function for my collection. I'd seen so many 23 channel sidebander 2's lately, i had forgotten about the old 18 channel ones.

While looking for a parts Radio - A much nicer example of this model was found,- Which is running nicely in front of me right now;- So thanks for all your input everyone. Thread can now be closed...

OK- an update,- in which i am hoping someone here can help steer us in the right direction. I sent the unit to a technician i found and this is what he said/did. QUOTE: "I noticed and fixed: - Damaged PCB track directly under the VCO, where a hole has been made, this just fell off when I...

Another thing i wanted to mention;; This unit was working well in the first place, except ,the audio had a slight hum and i saw a leaking electrolytic cap, which led me to changing them. Afterwards, when i started it up, the AM audio sounded really faint, instead of loud and vise versa for the...

Thanks, here are a few pics Serial number on the back is 00595 Sorry- i don't know why the pic of the front turned sideways.

Thanks,- no luck there, but i found out that these names have the PLL in them. LC7131 - Team, Kaiser, USW, and Courier Galaxy apparently. Wondering if any use the same board?

While re-capping my Pearce Simpson Super Tomcat, i noticed something resembling a 1n914/1N4148 looking type of Diode soldered to the back of the board by someone during a past repair, due to either a lifted track or just being too crowded to get the old broken one out of it's holes. It had the...

Yes-that is a Pearce and Simpson Super- Puma and Also sold as a Super Tomcat 2, with different knobs on it. Exactly the same inside and out because i have a Super Puma right here myself and have been trying to fix it. That's what bought me to this page, when i googled the PLL chip. Likewise- I...

We owned a Sidebander 4 - marketed in Australia under the Belcom brand. It was a 23 channel. The following is some more info from a page i came across. SBE Est. 1962, closed 1975 | USA SideBand Engineers was founded by the founder of Gonset, Mr. Faust Gonset in 1962. Its goal was to create...

"If it ain't broke"....