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From: "Alan Melia" <alan.melia@btinternet.com>
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:48:19 +0100
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Hi Nigel, I am glad you finally got the move completed...what an epic !!
Thanks for the thoughts, and it does seem as though you were unlucky with
that 2008.  My query was a idle one as I do not have one and I seemed to
remember some discussion on the reflector in the past about the unit.
Enjoy Scotland
Cheers de Alan G3NYK

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From: <GandalfG8@aol.com>
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Sent: 15 August 2006 10:54
Subject: Re: LF: D2008 query


>
> In a message dated 14/08/2006 21:47:29 GMT Standard Time,
> alan.melia@btinternet.com writes:
>
>
> Alan  G3NYK
>
> ------------------------snip
> Hi All,
>
> I recently  purchased a Siemens D2008 Level Meter (Pegelmesser) on eB*y
> with the idea  of trying out some VLF experiments.  However, despite the
> unit showing  full health in the photos, it has arrived and now only
> displays the decimal  point in the freq display.
>
>
>
> Hi Alan
>
> I've got a 2008 and manual but both are in storage right now and access
> would be extremely difficult, to put it mildly.
> Although I've finally moved things are still a  bit disorganised and I've
not
> got my own PC set up yet.
> There may be something archived on there and I should have  it running by
the
> weekend, so will check then and come back to you.
> For what it's worth, my 2008 was an ebay purchase, bought as working some
> time ago from the US, that also didn't work when received.
> It wasn't very well packed and suffered a bit of external damage but the
> main problem was internal.
> During transit all the spot welds along the top edge of the internal  sub
> chassis for PCBs etc had come adrift and left it floating.
> It will need to be stripped and drilled before attemping any further
repair
> and that will have to wait until I have more time, so I can't even claim
any
> experience yet of using it:-(
>
> regards
>
> Nigel
> G8PZR
>