SS3900F Prices?
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SS3900F Prices?
Whats a Dirland SS3900F worth?? boxed in near mint condition??
Seems very hard to get these days, not seen one in a while for sale.
Seems very hard to get these days, not seen one in a while for sale.
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Re: SS3900F Prices?
I reckon it would fetch £150 pretty easily.
You can often get good ones for about £120
You can often get good ones for about £120
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Re: SS3900F Prices?
Mudslinger wrote:I reckon it would fetch £150 pretty easily.
You can often get good ones for about £120
I know they sometimes come up on the France Ebay but have not seen one for a while.
I have the SS3900 HPEF, works great to be fair, very very good radios indeed.
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The Galaxy Pluto is basically the same, and they work very well also. But like most 3900 boarded radios they tend to drift a bit.
Some are worse than others,
Some are worse than others,
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I don't like the 6 band "counter" radios . I prefer the older 5 band versions . But that's just me
Price in the UK ....... Around £130 I'd say .
S.
Price in the UK ....... Around £130 I'd say .
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I prefer the 6 banders. The 5 band black Ronald I had was terrible.
Does the HPEF have a coarse tune? It looks like the outer part of what should be the clarifier does the power output.
If not then that's a shame.
Does the HPEF have a coarse tune? It looks like the outer part of what should be the clarifier does the power output.
If not then that's a shame.
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Well spotted Simon . I didn't see that . Doesn't look as if it has , which makes it pretty weird . I'm 99% sure it's just your usual 14B pcb , so the COARSE wires will be in there somewhere. Probably cut . That what happens when you have too many features , and not enough knobsMudslinger wrote:Does the HPEF have a coarse tune? It looks like the outer part of what should be the clarifier does the power output.
If not then that's a shame.
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Just had another look. It seems the outer clarifier has been replaced with mic gain and the mic/RF dual control does the echo.
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I don't want to ruin Russ's listing on this radio , but the fact that it doesn't have a coarse control for me is a major issue . I'd probably open it and disconnect the SWR CAL and RF POWER controls and rearrange them a bit , moving the MIC GAIN and adding the COARSE with the CLARIFIER at the same time . Obviously I wouldn't do it if I was selling it as he is , but I really don't like it the way it is . The problem after that is that the front facia won't line up with the controls . It's a toughy . My useless 2c.
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Re: SS3900F Prices?
That's my old radio. I only sold it just over a week ago for £120 which I thought was fair. Yes it does not have a coarse tune. It has a mic gain in its place.
Dirland did 2 versions. One with mic gain and one with coarse tune. I had both versions. I sold that one and I have kept my 3900 hpef with coarse tune. My hpef with coarse tune must be worth £170 then.
Not quite the same radio as a 3900 f but same board. The hpef is the same radio as the ranger voyage vr9000.
Dirland did 2 versions. One with mic gain and one with coarse tune. I had both versions. I sold that one and I have kept my 3900 hpef with coarse tune. My hpef with coarse tune must be worth £170 then.
Not quite the same radio as a 3900 f but same board. The hpef is the same radio as the ranger voyage vr9000.
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I had a SS3900 HPEF once and as you say there is no coarse control and too add the coarse was a right pain, Some resistors have to be swapped and a proper value coarse/fine control fitted.
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Re: SS3900F Prices?
Rob26mu747 wrote:
Not quite the same radio as a 3900 f but same board. The hpef is the same radio as the ranger voyage vr9000.
Are you sure its the same?
I know that they are similar but the Voyage is a much newer radio and uses cheaper components.
the one I had drifted terribly where as the Dirland 3900's tend not to be too bad.
The Voyage also has a coarse tune like the 3900F
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Mudslinger wrote:Rob26mu747 wrote:
Not quite the same radio as a 3900 f but same board. The hpef is the same radio as the ranger voyage vr9000.
Are you sure its the same?
I know that they are similar but the Voyage is a much newer radio and uses cheaper components.
the one I had drifted terribly where as the Dirland 3900's tend not to be too bad.
The Voyage also has a coarse tune like the 3900F
What I meant to say that the hpef (with coarse control) looks like the voyage vr 9000 as it has echo and the addition of cw mode over the ss 3900f. The voyage vr 9000 is far newer and uses a different circuit board and the hpef uses the ept360014b same as the 3900f but with the addition of echo and cw. The hpef is far better than the vr9000.
The dirland ss 3900 hpef with mic gain seem to be the common ones as I've seen a few for sale in France. The coarse tune models however seem to be a lot more rarer and I've only seen 3 including the one I have.
Both my hpef variants came from France.
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Thanks for the info Claude . It looks like a nightmare to reconnect the coarse .
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