Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Pride DX-300 Repairs

 This is a Pride DX-300 I repaired for a friend. He got it in a state of disrepair. I found circuits mis-wired, some parts bad, a bad relay that was missing the cover and had bent contacts, the parasitic choke on the plate was rebuilt with wirewound resistors, the glitch resistors in the hv circuit were blown, the low voltage supply was bad, and the input matching circuit was incorrectly wired. On a positive note, it had the Nomad Radio board upgrades to work with, and a good tube. The paper outer transformer wraps were torn and falling loose, so I repaired that and installed meter protection mods, as well. After a bit of work, it was back running and better than new.




Wires plugged into wrong posts...



Vad glitch resistors...



Another bad glitch resistor...

Relay on right all buggered up...



Sealing down outer paper winding cover.. 





SMH... wirewound resistors used in hairpin parasitic choke...


Meter protection mods installed...

New parasitic match assy installed...