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.
Sylvia.