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Just purchease a refurbished para normal systems original mini box has anyone here owned or used one? I have used the old evp maker and a radio shack hack
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joecioppi
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Ashtonford wrote: Just purchase a refurbished para normal systems original mini box has anyone here owned or used one? I have used the old evpmaker and a radio shack hack
Ash,
Here is a site that has examples of all the variations on the Frank Sumption spirit radio:
Keyportparanormal.com
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thanks for the information
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Joe are you selling your boxes?
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The minibox in all iterations is a very fine piece of equipment. I have a minibox classic and love it. I am currently working on building a linear voltage tuner board that will emulate the "triangle" linear sweep of the original minibox so I plan on experimenting with that as applied to different voltage tuned radios.
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Iam looking forward to trying it out
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joecioppi
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Ashtonford wrote: Joe are you selling your boxes? Ash,
Yes, but times have made people nervous about spending $200 on a spirit box.
[email protected]
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yes times are tuff but you pay for quality
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Joe I tried out the mini box today all I received was a spanish radio station nothing else any recomendations? so far Iam not impressed. The Radio shack hack produced results right away
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joecioppi
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Ashtonford wrote: Joe I tried out the mini box today all I received was a spanish radio station nothing else any recomendations? so far Iam not impressed. The Radio shack hack produced results right away
Ash,
Sounds like a lemon if the shack hack works in the same reception area. My experience with "refurbs" has been lemons that don't show when factory inspects them.
I think the mini has a sensitivity control that might be turned up and the antenna might need a long wire or proximity to a window to pick up signal
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Ron Rickett's is really good at standing behind his products. Dunno what the problem may be, but if you have reception on your other radios, you should have an equal amount on your mbox. Not sure when you tried it, but nighttime has better am signal propagation, so it might be more successful. At any rate, I am sure that they will make it right, they were quick to fix a problem I had with a box. Best of luck
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thanks ill try latter at nite and see how it works
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Joe I have a question with the mini box I have a strong local spanish station about 8 miles away from me that the mini box locks on will this prevent the box from operating properly? or can it be adjusted by turning the sensitivity back?
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joecioppi
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if the minibox doesn't have enough selectivity the strong station will override the weaker stations. Reducing gain will just cause the weak stations to be hard to hear.
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what is a answer to this problem? can a power antenna be used with the box to boost far away signals
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joecioppi
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If you have enough signal for a radio shack pocket radio the loop antenna will only make the existing signals stronger...including the spanish station......
A preselector antenna that tunes each station could increase selectivity but I'm afraid you have a bad mini
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so you think I should return it Joe
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joecioppi
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fraid so
Here is a radio that is a chinese copy of an older design from RCA/GE that uses voltage tuned preselector and if circuitry that can be sweep tuned with an external ramp voltage like the Frank's Box but has good selectivity. It has a big speaker with good tone.
It is out of production but some are left for cheap.
http://www.fadfusion.com/selection.php?product_item_number=20182000090
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I just sent him a email told him that i thought I had a defective mini and that would appreciate him fully checking it out. Just waiting to hear back form him not sure if he requires a return number or not. I really like the box and he has a good customer service record from what I read. I live in a suburb of Dc there are lots of radio stations big and small so there should be little prob of stations the mini can pick up and use. I took the box out on my balcony and it was still the same only picking up the one station so I tend to agree with you it would seem to point toward being defective. It has a full one year warranty so I should be fine. Also your joes box how do you go about ordering one from you? Last edited on Feb 10th, 2009 05:38 PM by
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joecioppi
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Ash,
I need half ($99) up front to buy parts and assemble it for you. It's hand wired and I don't have a stack of boards already assembled so it may take a week or so. When it's done you can send the second payment of $100 and I will ship priority mail no charge.
my email is: [email protected]
Skype name is: joecioppi
email me and I'll send you my snail mail address to sent your check since I don't use paypal
Joe Cioppi
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