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Kenwood R-2000
Buddy of mine gifted me this the other day, along w/a CYOOT 5" Sharp TV, & an indeterminant age, early-mid Sixties best guess- tube AM-SW tabletop set. The Sharp & the AM/SW set work, however the R-2000 is as dead as 4 o'clock. A call to Kenwood's Service Center indicated that they no longer support this set. I'd HATE to shit-can it, 'cause otherwise it looks practically new. Do you spose it would be worth it to take it to Terry ? If anyone here has a rather "Woolly" one, I MIGHT be talked into "Gifting" it forward...What do you fellers say ? By the bye, it DOES have the VHF module installed, which lets it pick up the air & police bands..
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Dead as in no power?
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real radios glow in the dark... |
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I am confident I can repair that. If you want to be guided through a repair, I can help with that also.
The Kenwood stuff is mostly very good, definitely better than most of the competition. I'm not familiar with that model but a manual should be available online. |
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www.sarmento.eng.br/Documentos/R2000_serv.pdf# service manual
Owners manual http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...tlk8Hkk7CmUxoA
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real radios glow in the dark... Last edited by radioactive; 04-30-2013 at 06:14 PM. |
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Well, its more of a case "Lights are on, but nobody's home"...
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Does the meter move? Sometimes it's only a case of the external speaker jack or the phones jack not making contact. Tune in a local, strong broadcast station on the usual AM band and see if the meter deflects. Does it sit on zero all the time? Does it respond to the RF Gain control?
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I'm pretty sure I'm gonna take it to Dr Dewick...like I said, lights come on, but nothing happens if you try to tune it, run the volume up or down....Kinda like a pithed frog in Biology class...Not exactly dead, but not alive, either..
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If you weren't so far away I would love to get my hands on that and get it running.
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If the display does not come on, try doing a hard reset on the cpu in the radio before you throw in the towel. I used to see a lot of these in my earlier years where the radio had sat for a long time unused and would either show garbage on the display or act like it's brain dead.
"R-2000 – Disconnect the power cable with the power switch ON. Remove the receiver top cover ( 8 screws). Ground pin 40 of the IC-12 on the PLL unit for about 5 seconds. Reconnect power, keep the M.IN switch depressed and ground pin 29 of IC-12 for a few seconds. Remove and then reinsert the power cable." |
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Sandy, good to see you again.
It's been a while since we parted on the AK. I'd like you to read my thread above and slip in a comment. Thanks. Suzuki |
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Terry said it has a bad display module. Rotsa ruck on finding another one on a radio that's been out of production for nigh on to 20 years..
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Recently, I purchased a TECSUN S-2000 receiver, which was delivered directly from Shanghai. It is excellent, and not only stylish yet neatly built and performs thoroughly in the same way.
It's a real bargain with no other model of this kind of gear to compete with it. Last edited by suzuki; 09-15-2014 at 11:33 AM. |
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Sandy's beam antenna looks beaming in a 90-degrees side of me.........
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Well, it was a "Gimme", nothing lost, nothing gained.. STILL have my JRC NRD-545, & my pitiful collection of junky-arse old broken-down Boatanchors... Oughta haul the whole Kit 'n' Kaboodle of 'em down to the street for the Garbageman to haul off... (grin) I DID have a Kenwood R-5000 back years ago, liked it VERY well.. Sold it for a JRC NRD-535D, Lightning got it, & then I got the 545..
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The Kenwood R-2000 is a very good receiver but is has a lot of proprietary parts that are all but impossible to find. Plus there are a lot of good working examples for sale. There is really no point in messing with a defunct unit, would make a good parts unit.
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