Cubic Corporation had a presence in the Amateur Radio market for a few years in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. To the best of my knowledge, only four models were ever produced under the Cubic name. It’s very likely the 100MX was under development when Cubic purchased Swan Electronics.
While each model has a unique feature set, they share the following attributes:
- Single conversion hetrodyne type transmitter/receiver sections with LO premixing.
- IF frequency of 9 MHz.
- High quality 8 pole crystal IF filter suitable for SSB.
- Excellent receiver performance in the presence of strong in-band signals. If you hear it, it’s really there!
- Highly effective noise blanker.
- Audio derived AGC. Okay, so nothing’s perfect. In defense of these boxes, Cubic’s implementation is actually better than many highly regarded units from Miamisburg and Cedar Rapids which employ theoretically superior RF derived AGC.
- Transmitter output of 100 watts PEP on all bands.
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Swan 100MX
Resources
Brock Publications
PO Box 5004
Oceanside, CA 92052
TEL: (760) 757-0372
Cubic’s service documentation was second to none. So if you need an owner’s or service manual for your transceiver, contact Brock Publications. In many cases, you will receive NOS literature. Otherwise, the fine folks at Brock will ship a high quality copy to you.
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