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The Satellit 300 was a digital PLL synthesis radio receiver from the 80s, and I bought it new, so I must have had it for getting on for thirty years. I suppose I can't complain that much given that it still worked until I dropped a wooden curtain rail onto it. The outside was unmarked, but it would no longer pick up MW (though VHF was OK, don't know about the other bands), the tuning wheel didn't work, and the illumination for the LCD panel was absent. The first problem suggested an issue with the ferrite rod antenna (not used for VHF of course), and a minute or so after I'd opened the thing up I spotted a broken connection. The second problem was also a wire that had broken off the tuning wheel mechanism.
The third was a broken filament bulb. The first two faults would probably not have occurred if the wiring had any slack in it at all. Also, this was an expensive radio - hadn't they heard of headers? Several more things broke while I was trying to put it back together, though it's all working now - I think. Click to expand.The old Grundig Satellites from the late 60's and 70's were much worse. OTOH, as a kid I got to repair some and that provided a very nice boost for the hobby budget.
Those things broke all the time, especially the really big ones that almost had the size of a briefcase. They were ok if you left them in one spot and just turned the dial. But woe to him who thought the handle meant they could be transported frequently. The way it usually went was the owner didn't trust a kid like me with that because these radios had cost them a fortune when new. So they gave them to a radio & TV repair shop. Those guys eventually threw their hands up in the air, gave up.
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With that, the radio had reached basket case status and I got it. It was nice to see the jaws drop when they worked again. Some defects were outright mean. List of pirates of the caribbean movies. Such as super-thin enameled wires that corroded off inside the IF filter cans. It seems they must have used some aggressive flux and under there it didn't get cleaned out too well. So when I got one of those surrendered cases the first order of biz was to ohm out all those windings.
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Click to expand.It looks like they spent most of their effort making it look good on the outside. I have some old German meters my father got from a Messerschmitt factory in Germany during WW2, and the wiring was very neat. But of course it was simpler than a SW radio. Still, I would expect much better attention to detail in a German product. I recently bought a DSP shortwave radio on eBay for $15 plus $10 shipping. It was made in China and all the labels and instructions were in Chinese. By the time I contacted them and got a translation, I had figured out most of it.
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I have not used it much, but it seems pretty nice: Paul. The Satellit 300 was a digital PLL synthesis radio receiver from the 80s, and I bought it new, so I must have had it for getting on for thirty years. I suppose I can't complain that much given that it still worked until I dropped a wooden curtain rail onto it. 
The outside was unmarked, but it would no longer pick up MW (though VHF was OK, don't know about the other bands), the tuning wheel didn't work, and the illumination for the LCD panel was absent.