Hi Steve; I had one too in the late 80's and seem to remember there were lots of problems but much has happened since then. As for the mini-quad, is this the same old mini-quad that was out in the mid 1980's or something new and improved? I had the old miniquad and any good storm and you could count on losing one little tuning spike which made at least one band useless. I'm curious as to details. Rich