Grundig satellit 800 repair manual#
Grundig satellit 800 repair full#
Grundig satellit 800 repair series#

Grundig satellit 800 repair series#

The one I have is definitely from the third series and it is really a very good tabletop receiver. Based on your description of the problems, it appears that the radio you have is an un-reworked set from one of the first two production runs. Thus, a fairly substantial number of these things were never captured for rework by Drake. There were quite a few disappointed buyers that jettisoned their 800s by selling them on EBay. Others, such as Sharper Image, didn't do that. Some dealers were smart and would check out the radios before shipment to weed out the turkeys. Although they weeded out most of the bugs, the damage was done and the 800 sold poorly and had the shortest production run of any Sattelit model.Д®ven so, there was some consensus that the quality of what you got depended somewhat upon when and where you got the radio from. The returned units from the first two runs were reworked by RL Drake and sold for a lower price as refurbs. It wasn't until the third run that the quality began to meet expectations. They were able to fix some of the bugs in the second run, but not all. I remember when the first run of these radios came out and it was pretty disastrous, with a very high return rate. Lexitronix really blew it by releasing this radio to the public before it was ready. Grundig would not permit the sale of this radio with its name on it outside of North America. It is actually made by Tecsun in China and in the far east and Europe, you could buy the exact same radio with the Tecsun branding on it. I'm sure you already know this by now, but this is not a Grundig radio. It has none of the problems that have been alluded to by dissatisfied purchasers of this radio. I have one of these and the performance is quite good. I have read of many failure issues for this radio which is sad since it is a pretty nice set when operating as it should. I do have the schematics for it and will dig into it at some point.

Grundig satellit 800 repair full#

It has lately developed the case where the S meter reads full scale all of the time even though the radio still works. My E1XM (would have been the next in the Satellit series if Grundig had stayed in business) is another story. The older 700 feels like a more solid radio but it has to be given all that is put into a much smaller case. It is hard to compare it to its Satellit 700 predecessor which I bought on a trip to Germany when they were new because there is really no commonality between the two. It was designed to look impressive but when healthy performance is good also.

Grundig satellit 800 repair manual#

Somewhere I have the service manual for it that I bought when Drake got out of the service business several years in case mine ever needs service. Also cycle the attenuator button a few times because it probably uses an internal relay. The slide switches for the antenna on the back can be troublesome if not used much, cycle the selector switch several times and then make sure you end up in the correct position for the antenna connected. Sensitivity and selectivity are fine and the AM sync also works well. My only real complaint with it is the tuning speed is pretty fast for CW/SSB. I have one and I wouldn't call it a great radio but it is far from terrible and I never noticed any severe intermod problems. I heard the early production lot had a lot of problems that were only fixed by a trip to RL Drake (design lead and U.S.