Codan Frequencies

Thanks Topcat, appreciate the info.

Thanks Footy,

It looks like it belongs in a museum. I remember that type of set served the Bush Tucker Man well though.

You might care to take a peek at one of my web pages.
http://home.iprimus.com.au/jimshire/6924.htm
Good luck with it.

I've got an old Codan - 6828?? I'm not sure what the model is. Are these old sets worth anything to collectors??

I threw another one of these old sets in the bin a few years back. I got about 8 radios at an auction many years ago and two of 'em - 8525s - have served me well foir the last 10 years. I sold a few of the others at knockdown prices to fellow prospectors.

Bilbo - "the radio-active hobbit"

Ahh..radio active hobbit. You were looking for gold and found uranium ? :))))))
Sounds like you have the old 6801 or 7727 sets. If they have RFDS channels in them they might be worth $50-100. But if not, only good for spares. The model number should be on them somewhere on the outside, if not some had boards that started with 77 or 68 so you might identify them that way.
The 8525's are usually rock solid if looked after. They do have a 10 volt regulator thats prone to failure, a 1/2 hour job to replace. Apart from the Phase Lock loops giving some problems, or blowing the final transistors (no aerial etc ), they are as good as gold. I miss the lack of displayed info compared to say a 9323, and they won't do telcall.
Apart from that, I still love the 25A's. Got a heap of em sitting here at the moment that aren't for sale as they are in use quite often.

Just a little bit of trivia on these Codans. The model number has a little meaning to it - the first 2 numerals are the year in which it was designed, the second 2 are the project serial number for the year.

PeterD

Peter, yep, fine until people mix and match heads and boxes. :))))

>These days I rely on the Satphone for commu nications.

As do others... although, in this case (post 49026), not very successfully.

HF has it's drawbacks but, one way or another, you can usually contact someone with it.

Mike Harding

Willem
A 'dry joint'occurs when the dab of solder on a connection fails, because they cannot be seen by naked eye can be very time consuming to fix, sometimes the only way to fix is to redo every soldered connection, this problem can occur even in modern day electronic equipment.
Mike

Thanks Mike.

I am now 'the wiser'...:-)

Cheers