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Default Geloso G.209 parts ?

Henry wrote on Sun, 5 Oct 2008 08:42:23 -0500:

HK It's an Italian ham receiver from the 60s I think, 12 American tubes,
HK double conversion, well made. It followed me home from the Belton
HK hamfest. Right now it's on the Variac to see if it works. It looks
HK very good but has a crack in the dial cover and needs a Geloso logo
HK disc for the dial. Does anyone know of any source of parts? This is
HK the only one I've ever seen.
HK Thanks
HK Hank wd5jfr

The missing logo is very common in Geloso sets, as common as difficult
to find now. The dialcover is not so rare on eBay, sold mostly with the VFO
kit. I have a couple of new ones but are the 'lab' version, Geloso made
some versions for other brands to be used in lab gears, so, the low
rounded part in the middle has no logo and is squared than rounded
like in this kind of 'rich people' receivers. If you need it let me know.
Also, if you need service notes for this receiver just ask me.
NOTE: this receiver has a point on the chassis to connect converters
for 144 and 430 mhz, often on eBay, they may be used only
with Geloso receivers so they go for low pricing.
The top of the line was the G214, the last 'old school' chassis type,
the G216 was on printed circuit and gave lot of troubles.
The most common troubles in those receivers are located in
the compact tuning box (you have access to it on bottom side); they
usually fail switching, a pain to disassemble to deoxit and for caps
replacing, i may have a new one somewhere IIRC.

Daniele
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