Hi, I've been watching your videos for a few months now and I really enjoy your style and skill. Thank you for showing us around your beautiful old gear and various benches. I really enjoy seeing what gear other elec techs and Hams have. I only wish I had half the room you have you are one fortunate guy. Keep producing these great videos and 73's.
+TRXBench hI Peter and thanks for stopping by. Yes I have lots of projects to post on repairs and how to's Just have to take the time to get in the shop and get busy :-) Appreciate the comments.
Great video Buddy! Your videos have been an inspiration for me. I'm 57 and just got interested in vintage test gear a couple of years ago and went on the hunt for local deals. I still don't have much experience, but I have a lot of sweet old vintage gear to learn on, and enough knowledge to not set myself on fire, or worse. Thanks for all the great videos!
Suprised i have not seen any AVO meters i love my avo 9 military spec its great for doing bias stages which is its main use for me. It does many other things but its my designated piece of old skool equipment for biasing outputs stages. Cant beat an analogue meter.
Had many homebuilt crystal radios when I was young. One of the first ones I build was the "Foxhole" radio. I do plan on doing a video on them one day. Thanks for sharing
I think you need one more transmitter. You're missing a Kenwood TS 830 sugar. Looks like you're having a lot of fun there!! Thank you for sharing your collection! I love seeing all that stuff.
After 35 years as a full call Ham my wife said thats it ITS ALL GOTTA GO. SO WHEN I GOT HOME FROM HOSPITAL .my shack was empty and she had a new room been trying to sell my gear but nobody interested for even a few dollars THEY WANT IT ALL FREE.AS I,M 76 yo i wont be using it again TH 7 dxx two 2100 linear amps with new spare tubes ft 757gx2 rig the list goes on I put $1800 dollars on the lot ,almost no interest .so looks like its a trip to the dump we will just have to see what happens. Cheers VK4CKC.
Wow. I owned and operated a ham and CB radio repair shop and an audio/video repair shop in the 80's. We had many of the same pieces of equipment mixed with newer gear. I still have a box filled with new IC's and semiconductors that are sealed in their bags forty years ago. I was initially self-taught and repairing tube rigs in the early 70s. The old timers TV repairmen and hams were always great friends in my childhood, and they gave me parts and gear that they had collected. I went on to engineering school and spent most of my time teaching my classmates how the real world actually works. Then on to production lines and design labs and ended up in applications and sales because a ham radio operator was hiring at 30% more salary than engineers were paid. I miss the old shop and the old days. Young people have no concept of repairing anything anymore, everything is designed to be thrown out. I have an Alinco DX70 and the squelch was staying on. I was hoping for a dirty pot, and it was this tiny surface mount connector that the entire assembly of two four pots literally hung on. Of course, the tiny solder joints were pulled open. I don't have any hot air system, I thought about a heat gun, but I attempted to use a pin point soldering iron and my eyes are not what they were. I ended up removing the connector and but lifting the eight pins and thinking i might be able to solder tiny wires and make jumpers and eliminate the connector, but I am not at all confident that I can pull it off without lifting the pads off the board. I will call the suggested parts supplier for Alinco tomorrow, but I doubt they will have the volume control unit as I see there is a newer version with through holes and a larger connector. The original design was garbage, clearly a newbie engineer that knew electronics, but was clueless about mechanical stress. Anyway, it's great to see your shop and your work. I will be watching your videos. I even built that scope you said was modeled after a HealthKit, that was my first scope, I recall it had a massive 10MHZ bandwidth!
Love yer shop. Where are you located??? And thanks for the tour. I used to be a TV repair man and I used to modify CB radios back in the day. 73 from K9POW in eastern Tennessee.
Wow! I just thought I had a lot of vintage test equipment. I'm doing some cassette deck repairs and I was wondering if you could tell me where I can get a couple of 2SC2878 muting transistors. Thanks and keep on transmitting. 🙂
Love the old Geer btw i have the same RF. POWER SCANNER PDC600 and its in grate shape not any war on the righting on the face and no dents or marks on it like you say "It was someone else's junk but has made a night home here" other junk i have is a JC Penny F.C.C. Data 981 6217B catalog No. 981-2785 23 channel CB with stock 6pin mic with Volume control on the mic, Pace 8003 40 Channel CB stock mic, Midland 77-888 6 pin mic Astatic MOD. 575-M6 with Volume & Tone slides on the mic, Realistic TRC-422A with stock min but the mic has one of them old red stickers with raised righting on it with the call KBUS4063 this one is in mint shape and i am not willing to remove his/her calls off the mic lol and this radio was in the box when i gut it, Uniden PC76XL with a Astatic 636L-FLAG mic all radios are in 100% working order and STOCK other than the 2 that have Astatic mic on them 73 KC1DAI Claer
+Joseph B. KC1DAI Sounds like you have a lot of old gear also. Thanks for sharing and for posting. I love old stuff. Feel free to stop by my channel or website anytime.
First Happy Xmas Buddy - I’ve now fixed a FT101 early model, FT101 late model and an FT101E through watching your super videos. Your workshop looks magic sir. Stay safe! William.
I had one of those 1011 C back in the day.I just bought a pristeen ft-726 R at the berryville ham fest this year, added a digital tone board.Great working radio.I'm Ronnie/KN4U in Virginia.Thanks for the tour.You have Great collection.I you decide to up grade to a newer radio the kenwood TS-590SG.is a good one.73 cul.
Thanks Ronnie. There is a mod for the UHF to cover the high and low ham bands on your 726. Would love to add a 590 to the collection one day. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the tour. My hobby is restoring old record players, consoles and radios. I just got my general license last year. KC3NRA I am running a Swan 600T, 600R Custom, Swan Speaker with Phone Patch and an Icom 7300. Your videos are very helpful. My shop also has vintage test equipment (some newer). I realize that the more I learn, the more I learn just how little I know. I just like the old stuff. Again, thank you.
i swear...... EVERY ham i have ever met has at least one D104 stand mic...... they must've used to hand 'em out when you passed the test..... i didn't get mine, i guess they ran out :/
Hi John. Yes the old D104 non amplified mic was a standard back in the day. Specially for old tube gear as the crystal element worked great for AM mode.
Hi!! You have an excellent shop, very very nice, looks like you have had this for a lot of years, I enjoy looking at shops of electronics, I just enjoy vintage electronics in general... have a nice day, and thank you for sharing this with us...
Holy cow! I couldn't afford all the caps you'd need to bring all your toys back to snuff! OMG! What a collection! I gave away my Icom 751 and bought a new Icom 7300 with an Astron 35M. Most of the time I use an outboard antenna tuner because I thought I'd like it. LOL de Bruce, KQ2E
I just found a Heathkit IG-1271 in my junk box, which led me to your troubleshooting video :) I enjoyed your video! Working in a TV station, I was amazed to see how a tiny little tantalum capacitor could haul down a DC power bus. One article said that "tantalums fail to short": took me a while to realize he meant they DO short, and can fry a circuit board in the process :)
A delightful collection of lovely older equipment. Your video is very motivating. You make me feel like restoring some of that old Heathkit Tube Ham equipment that I have gathering dust. If only I could find sources for tubes and other parts. Best wishes...Winston
+Andrewausfa Well thank you Andrew. Spending this week doing some remolding to the work bench. Should be even better in the next video. It was ok like it was but with trying to do UA-cam videos I have to make it a little better. Thanks again for the kind words.
I very much enjoyed your Kenwood TS-50 repair video. After watching, I now have the confidence to attempt repair of my TS-50 C125 and other audio circuit components including bad SMD pads and traces. Where can I purchase the 1.4 mil copper foil, CW 2500 epoxy and the heat tape? All I can find are expensive "kits" costing $200+! You make it seem so simple and straight forward - no big deal. This would be my first SMD repair, and I have ordered a rework heat desolder system and capacitor ESR tester for starters.
Thanks Jack for you comments. If you go to video number 19 and click on the show more tab just under the video you will see the links for the needed products. Yes I try and keep my videos simple for everyone can follow along even if they have no electronics back ground. Great to hear you will try this yourself. Good luck, it is not that hard. Hope this helps, Buddy
Awesome. Wish you were closer by, what a blast looking at all your goodies. The TS-2000 has lots of potential, massive amount of modifications available for that great radio. Hope you look a few up sometime. -Don, KW4UP. Born: 1961.
Thanks Don. I am going to look into some of those mods. Think the shop has change a dozen times since this video lol. Folks walk in and go wow. I don't get it. Just a bunch of old stuff.... Thanks for watching.
looks like you've got yourself some very nice equipment there hoss, i started drooling when i seen that Tram, (lucky rascal), @ 7:54 i noticed a nice looking big variac there in the corner, and was expecting you to tell the up and coming techs out there all about it and what it can be used for (maybe you can cover that in the next vid, hehe), you get ready to get rid of that Tram now just give me a holler, hehe, just kidding, i know its one of your treasures, what are you building on that breadboard? something neat i bet, i really enjoyed you sharing your shop with us, gotta run, L8r bro, :)
+lazaruscome4th Thank you very much for the nice comments Lazarus, I had a tram like that when they first come out and later sold it. Big mistake. You seen what these go for on Ebay? I found this one not long ago and restored it back to stock factory specs then converted it to 10 meters. I had planned on mentioning the variac but it slipped my mind. Happens when you get old and a grey beard lol. I will include it in the Heathkit HW-101 video I will be shooting soon.On the bread board is a PLL circuit I have been plying around with. The chip is a CD4046. I got this idea from Alan W2AEW video:ua-cam.com/video/SS7z8WsXPMkH/v-deo.htmle does a great tutorial on it.Thanks again for the comments.
I love the shop/shack... i'm an test equipment guy.. i like the test equipment better than the radios themselves... I notice you have several B&K 2040s... i had a the 1040/2040 set at one time and i let it go thinking i'd never use it again.. well.. you guessed it.. i wish I had them back.. let me know if you ever want to part with, or run across, a set again that you might sell.. i'm a buyer at the right price.. thanks for making the videos..
+kujawat Thanks. glad you like my old stuff. I have 3 of the 2040's. One I am not sure if I can ever get it back going due to circuit traces no longer will hold solder due to corrosion. I do pick these up once in a while and restore them then resale. If I run into another I will let you know. They do seem harder to find now. Thanks again for watching.
This video started up when I visited your channel and I didn't see the title so the ham and CB gear were a nice surprise. Never seen so many working D-104's at one time, a beautiful sight to see. The Kenwood at the end looks like it was caught while exploding, frozen forever just as it bulged out from the pressure.
Thank you so very much for the tour. I was very impressed with your work shop. Thank you for the knowledge you have provided here on your channel. 73's for now. Dave Gill N6PGG / 7 Spokane WA.
Hi Cliff. What other problems are you having? Click on the show more tab under the video and look for contact information. Follow that link and send me an email. We can discuss this.
A wonderful group of old Radios, I haven't seen a collection like since my dad past a way Just starting to put my shack back together after 30 years of being off the air.Brings back some good memories with my dad. Thank You
I'm going to try your trick of buying some expensive piece of equipment that doesn't work cheap on Ebay and fixing it so I found a Boonton 9200A RF Millivoltmeter for $22 that normally costs hundreds of dollars. Maybe it works and just needs cleaning up, wish me luck! It doesn't have probes and they are very expensive but look easy to make. Do you have any experience with that model?
Good luck on that steve. Some tmes it is the best way to go. Most of my radios were purchased broken and I repaired them myself. I have used that rig when I worked for EF Johnson many years ago. For 22 bucks cannot go wrong. Buddy
I'm glad I subscribed to your channel. That was an interesting little tour of your vast assortment of test gear and radios (plenty of subject matter for future videos there). Also, since you said that your repaired many of the items on your bench(es), I hope to see upcoming videos where you share some of your repair knowledge and experiences.
+fpliuzzi And I am glad you stopped by for a visit. Here is one good thing about old equipment, it sometimes break or needs maintenance to keep them going. Can probably make a dozen or so videos based on just that. I do have plenty of stuff in need of repair that is not in the video. And some I will do a few troubleshooting videos on. Plus always looking for bargain deals in need of resurrection. Thanks for your kind words.
+dogastus Yep there is a lot of junk here :)I love the 736. Good radio. Wanted one for a long time but the prices were just to high. Found this one as a tech special. Fixed her up and has been running fine ever since. Since I have a Kenwood 2000 been thinking about selling the 736. Don't know yet.Thanks for subscribing.
Love the repair spots and the shack, esp. the vintage gear and mic's ! That National is a kind of rare rig, don't see them very often, especially if it works as I am sure it does ! 73 and hope to catch you on the air !
+Grant Fullen Thanks,Most was someone else's problems I picked up. Then repaired. Too bad I was not doing videos then, But I have lots more equipment to repair and video. Glad you liked it.
Thanks for the tour of your shop. I got a question for you, I am trying to hook my tenma frequency counter inline. I have cb radio>coax> into a 259 T with the center pin cut down> and one end goes to my dummy load and the center goes to a coax with a BNC to my scope. How would you hook in the frequency counter to read what is in the line when you key the radio? thanks
+Jimz Custom Radios Thanks for your comment. There are several ways to do this. Like you mentioned the cut down tee to sample the signal. I myself use a sampler that I built. There are many posted on the net. One you can build is like in the video from w2aew.ua-cam.com/video/0Kk_N_TpDeoH/v-deo.htmle has several and also has one to connect your scope using X/Y mode. It has a sampler port and a de-mod pot.ua-cam.com/video/y4Zt_LJX1TcH/v-deo.htmlope this helps
+The Radio Shop Yes I subscribe to his channel also, I'm looking to somehow connect the Temba to the scope so that when I see the pattern on the scope(carrier) I can also see the frequency that the radio is on, just for tuning.
+Jimz Custom Radios Thanks! If you build that circuit in the above comment it will do all you need. I also have it on my website with parts list and schematic.gokarters.com/smf/index.php?topic=2467.msg17740#msg17740
Hi, I've been watching your videos for a few months now and I really enjoy your style and skill. Thank you for showing us around your beautiful old gear and various benches. I really enjoy seeing what gear other elec techs and Hams have. I only wish I had half the room you have you are one fortunate guy. Keep producing these great videos and 73's.
Thanks Gary for the very kind words. It is always good to hear this. Glad you like the videos. More to come.
very nice shop Buddy! Now let us see more projects :^) Take care mate! 73's
+TRXBench hI Peter and thanks for stopping by. Yes I have lots of projects to post on repairs and how to's Just have to take the time to get in the shop and get busy :-) Appreciate the comments.
Turner Plus Three great mic i have one myself its the best turner in my opinion with its speech compression circuit solid build quality
Great video Buddy! Your videos have been an inspiration for me. I'm 57 and just got interested in vintage test gear a couple of years ago and went on the hunt for local deals. I still don't have much experience, but I have a lot of sweet old vintage gear to learn on, and enough knowledge to not set myself on fire, or worse. Thanks for all the great videos!
That is awesome! Thanks
Suprised i have not seen any AVO meters i love my avo 9 military spec its great for doing bias stages which is its main use for me. It does many other things but its my designated piece of old skool equipment for biasing outputs stages. Cant beat an analogue meter.
A little hard to find in military spec. I would love to get one. Thanks
As a kid, did you have a crystal radio. I built one, yes had the headphones and listened as much as possible at night. Love it.
Had many homebuilt crystal radios when I was young. One of the first ones I build was the "Foxhole" radio. I do plan on doing a video on them one day. Thanks for sharing
don't know how I missed your channel till now... nice Lab great equipment! WOW!!!
+su pyrow Why thank you. And thanks for joining in. Just a bunch of old stuff here. Gets the job done though. Thank you for the kind words.
I think you need one more transmitter. You're missing a Kenwood TS 830 sugar. Looks like you're having a lot of fun there!! Thank you for sharing your collection! I love seeing all that stuff.
I do believe you are correct. I sold mine 4 years ago and have missed it ever since. If I ever get another one it will stay planted. Thanks Rico
I got your TS 830 S Kenwood right here Buddy. Have it on eBay for sale right now for $300. Add nicely to your collection.
After 35 years as a full call Ham my wife said thats it ITS ALL GOTTA GO. SO WHEN I GOT HOME FROM HOSPITAL .my shack was empty and she had a new room been trying to sell my gear but nobody interested for even a few dollars THEY WANT IT ALL FREE.AS I,M 76 yo i wont be using it again TH 7 dxx two 2100 linear amps with new spare tubes ft 757gx2 rig the list goes on I put $1800 dollars on the lot ,almost no interest .so looks like its a trip to the dump we will just have to see what happens. Cheers VK4CKC.
Wow. I owned and operated a ham and CB radio repair shop and an audio/video repair shop in the 80's. We had many of the same pieces of equipment mixed with newer gear. I still have a box filled with new IC's and semiconductors that are sealed in their bags forty years ago. I was initially self-taught and repairing tube rigs in the early 70s. The old timers TV repairmen and hams were always great friends in my childhood, and they gave me parts and gear that they had collected. I went on to engineering school and spent most of my time teaching my classmates how the real world actually works. Then on to production lines and design labs and ended up in applications and sales because a ham radio operator was hiring at 30% more salary than engineers were paid.
I miss the old shop and the old days. Young people have no concept of repairing anything anymore, everything is designed to be thrown out.
I have an Alinco DX70 and the squelch was staying on. I was hoping for a dirty pot, and it was this tiny surface mount connector that the entire assembly of two four pots literally hung on. Of course, the tiny solder joints were pulled open. I don't have any hot air system, I thought about a heat gun, but I attempted to use a pin point soldering iron and my eyes are not what they were. I ended up removing the connector and but lifting the eight pins and thinking i might be able to solder tiny wires and make jumpers and eliminate the connector, but I am not at all confident that I can pull it off without lifting the pads off the board.
I will call the suggested parts supplier for Alinco tomorrow, but I doubt they will have the volume control unit as I see there is a newer version with through holes and a larger connector. The original design was garbage, clearly a newbie engineer that knew electronics, but was clueless about mechanical stress.
Anyway, it's great to see your shop and your work. I will be watching your videos. I even built that scope you said was modeled after a HealthKit, that was my first scope, I recall it had a massive 10MHZ bandwidth!
I have a FT101e that needs service. How do I contact you. Thanks,
WD8BVO
Battle Creek, MI
Brilliant thanks for sharing, in awe at your knowledge and equipment, de G0VCW/qrp
Thank you very much Richard
Love yer shop. Where are you located??? And thanks for the tour. I used to be a TV repair man and I used to modify CB radios back in the day. 73 from K9POW in eastern Tennessee.
Wow! I just thought I had a lot of vintage test equipment. I'm doing some cassette deck repairs and I was wondering if you could tell me where I can get a couple of 2SC2878 muting transistors.
Thanks and keep on transmitting. 🙂
hey buddy'''''i was rewatchin this old video'''''''''i thought you also has a kenwood ts-850s.
Nice Shop Buddy.... Lots of cool various radios and test equipment.. Thanks For Saring Keep Doing What Your Doing!!
Thanks Aaron
Love the old Geer btw i have the same RF. POWER SCANNER PDC600 and its in grate shape not any war on the righting on the face and no dents or marks on it like you say "It was someone else's junk but has made a night home here" other junk i have is a JC Penny F.C.C. Data 981 6217B catalog No. 981-2785 23 channel CB with stock 6pin mic with Volume control on the mic, Pace 8003 40 Channel CB stock mic, Midland 77-888 6 pin mic Astatic MOD. 575-M6 with Volume & Tone slides on the mic, Realistic TRC-422A with stock min but the mic has one of them old red stickers with raised righting on it with the call KBUS4063 this one is in mint shape and i am not willing to remove his/her calls off the mic lol and this radio was in the box when i gut it, Uniden PC76XL with a Astatic 636L-FLAG mic all radios are in 100% working order and STOCK other than the 2 that have Astatic mic on them 73 KC1DAI Claer
+Joseph B. KC1DAI Sounds like you have a lot of old gear also. Thanks for sharing and for posting. I love old stuff. Feel free to stop by my channel or website anytime.
What a great collection of kit,I thought I had a large collection but your set up is enormous,Colin
Thanks Colin. Been collecting for many years. A lot more have been added since this video :)
this is joe and i have been watching your channel for awhile now i would like how to send a radio to you for repair tnks joe n0uwf
First Happy Xmas Buddy - I’ve now fixed a FT101 early model, FT101 late model and an FT101E through watching your super videos. Your workshop looks magic sir. Stay safe! William.
Thanks for the comment William. Much appreciate it and glad to hear you got them going
I had one of those 1011 C back in the day.I just bought a pristeen ft-726 R at the berryville ham fest this year, added a digital tone board.Great working radio.I'm Ronnie/KN4U in Virginia.Thanks for the tour.You have Great collection.I you decide to up grade to a newer radio the kenwood TS-590SG.is a good one.73 cul.
Thanks Ronnie. There is a mod for the UHF to cover the high and low ham bands on your 726. Would love to add a 590 to the collection one day. Thanks for watching.
united electronics vtvm sure looks a lot like a rca wv77e vtvm i once had.
Thank you for the tour. My hobby is restoring old record players, consoles and radios. I just got my general license last year. KC3NRA I am running a Swan 600T, 600R Custom, Swan Speaker with Phone Patch and an Icom 7300. Your videos are very helpful. My shop also has vintage test equipment (some newer). I realize that the more I learn, the more I learn just how little I know. I just like the old stuff. Again, thank you.
That is awesome!
I have 2 940s where I send them so you can repair them
looking to repair my ICOM 745
i swear...... EVERY ham i have ever met has at least one D104 stand mic...... they must've used to hand 'em out when you passed the test..... i didn't get mine, i guess they ran out :/
Hi John. Yes the old D104 non amplified mic was a standard back in the day. Specially for old tube gear as the crystal element worked great for AM mode.
Thanks for the tour. How long have you been working on radios?
Thanks for watching jerry. Probably about 40 years.
Beautiful grounds, a paradise for lovers of electronic, beautiful laboratory, congratulations.
+Technical Lab Thanks so much for the kind words. Very pleased you liked it. As you can tell I am a bit old school. Thanks for stopping by.
Thumbs up Buddy; That shops really coming along. A great place to retire and enjoy life. Thanks fer the tour my Friend.
Thanks my friend. It has come a long way.
Hi!! You have an excellent shop, very very nice, looks like you have had this for a lot of years, I enjoy looking at shops of electronics, I just enjoy vintage electronics in general... have a nice day, and thank you for sharing this with us...
Thanks for the comment. Been at this for 40 plus years
I just subscribed, a little out of my league here, none the less very enjoyable line of work you have going on. Thanks for making the video(s)
Thanks for subscribing. I try and make my videos without all the tech talk so everyone can follow.
You have a nice collection of Yaesu gear. Very nice. Regards Chris
Thanks Chris, I have always been a bit partial to Yaesu.
Bell and Howell 'scope at 03:25 looks just like the Heathkit IO-4105.
+EdWatts That's right. Good eye. They were both made by Zenith.
love the shop/shack hope to catch up on 20m one day you could pm your call this way keep up the great vids ,Nigel
Sounds great and thanks
Holy cow! I couldn't afford all the caps you'd need to bring all your toys back to snuff! OMG! What a collection! I gave away my Icom 751 and bought a new Icom 7300 with an Astron 35M. Most of the time I use an outboard antenna tuner because I thought I'd like it. LOL de Bruce, KQ2E
I just found a Heathkit IG-1271 in my junk box, which led me to your troubleshooting video :) I enjoyed your video! Working in a TV station, I was amazed to see how a tiny little tantalum capacitor could haul down a DC power bus. One article said that "tantalums fail to short": took me a while to realize he meant they DO short, and can fry a circuit board in the process :)
hi there by any chance could you do a video of the setting on the side of the kenwood ts 520 being set up thanks
What part are you asking about? Bias?
A delightful collection of lovely older equipment. Your video is very motivating. You make me feel like restoring some of that old Heathkit Tube Ham equipment that I have gathering dust. If only I could find sources for tubes and other parts. Best wishes...Winston
QUITE THE SHOP,VERY NICE
Very nice shop and lots of ham and CB history there.Thank you for showing this equipment KD0GYE 73 .Sammy .
Very nice shop, 73
Thank you for showing & sharing history of the past .
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice nice nice! You must have so much fun using your awesome test equipment. Thanks for the fun👍👍👍
Has anyone heard from Mike at mikesradiorepair ?
I have not spoken with him since last week. I am sure he is just busy as can be.
What a fantastically well-equipped workshop! Really impressed how organised it is.
Regards - Andrew
+Andrewausfa Well thank you Andrew. Spending this week doing some remolding to the work bench. Should be even better in the next video. It was ok like it was but with trying to do UA-cam videos I have to make it a little better. Thanks again for the kind words.
Thanks for the free tour, lotsa nice equipment.
Appreciate that Sam. Thanks
Frank T. ???
What a great collection of rigs Buddy, you must have a lot of fun with them. 👍
Great channel, thank you for great content.
Greetings from a fellow vintage audio UA-cam channel owner.
Thank you for watching. I will check out your channel as well.
I very much enjoyed your Kenwood TS-50 repair video. After watching, I now have the confidence to attempt repair of my TS-50 C125 and other audio circuit components including bad SMD pads and traces. Where can I purchase the 1.4 mil copper foil, CW 2500 epoxy and the heat tape? All I can find are expensive "kits" costing $200+! You make it seem so simple and straight forward - no big deal. This would be my first SMD repair, and I have ordered a rework heat desolder system and capacitor ESR tester for starters.
Thanks Jack for you comments. If you go to video number 19 and click on the show more tab just under the video you will see the links for the needed products. Yes I try and keep my videos simple for everyone can follow along even if they have no electronics back ground. Great to hear you will try this yourself. Good luck, it is not that hard. Hope this helps, Buddy
your lying
Awesome. Wish you were closer by, what a blast looking at all your goodies. The TS-2000 has lots of potential, massive amount of modifications available for that great radio. Hope you look a few up sometime. -Don, KW4UP. Born: 1961.
Thanks Don. I am going to look into some of those mods. Think the shop has change a dozen times since this video lol. Folks walk in and go wow. I don't get it. Just a bunch of old stuff.... Thanks for watching.
I really enjoy your videos. I love the old stuff.
Thanks Chuck
looks like you've got yourself some very nice equipment there hoss, i started drooling when i seen that Tram, (lucky rascal),
@ 7:54 i noticed a nice looking big variac there in the corner, and was expecting you to tell the up and coming techs out there all about it and what it can be used for (maybe you can cover that in the next vid, hehe),
you get ready to get rid of that Tram now just give me a holler, hehe, just kidding, i know its one of your treasures,
what are you building on that breadboard? something neat i bet,
i really enjoyed you sharing your shop with us,
gotta run, L8r bro,
:)
+lazaruscome4th Thank you very much for the nice comments Lazarus, I had a tram like that when they first come out and later sold it. Big mistake. You seen what these go for on Ebay? I found this one not long ago and restored it back to stock factory specs then converted it to 10 meters. I had planned on mentioning the variac but it slipped my mind. Happens when you get old and a grey beard lol. I will include it in the Heathkit HW-101 video I will be shooting soon.On the bread board is a PLL circuit I have been plying around with. The chip is a CD4046. I got this idea from Alan W2AEW video:ua-cam.com/video/SS7z8WsXPMkH/v-deo.htmle does a great tutorial on it.Thanks again for the comments.
I love the shop/shack... i'm an test equipment guy.. i like the test equipment better than the radios themselves... I notice you have several B&K 2040s... i had a the 1040/2040 set at one time and i let it go thinking i'd never use it again.. well.. you guessed it.. i wish I had them back.. let me know if you ever want to part with, or run across, a set again that you might sell.. i'm a buyer at the right price.. thanks for making the videos..
+kujawat Thanks. glad you like my old stuff. I have 3 of the 2040's. One I am not sure if I can ever get it back going due to circuit traces no longer will hold solder due to corrosion. I do pick these up once in a while and restore them then resale. If I run into another I will let you know. They do seem harder to find now. Thanks again for watching.
This video started up when I visited your channel and I didn't see the title so the ham and CB gear were a nice surprise. Never seen so many working D-104's at one time, a beautiful sight to see. The Kenwood at the end looks like it was caught while exploding, frozen forever just as it bulged out from the pressure.
Thanks for watching. D104's are getting harder to come by now. Specially working ones. Hand around more to come :)
Thank you so very much for the tour. I was very impressed with your work shop. Thank you for the knowledge you have provided here on your channel.
73's for now.
Dave Gill N6PGG / 7
Spokane WA.
Thanks Dave. I am going to do a update shop tour in the future. Appreciate the kind words.
Hello,
I have an IFR1200 that had the checksum error. I replaced the battery and the capacitors but it still acts up. Do you do repairs?
Thanks!
Cliff
Hi Cliff. What other problems are you having? Click on the show more tab under the video and look for contact information. Follow that link and send me an email. We can discuss this.
A wonderful group of old Radios, I haven't seen a collection like since my dad past a way Just starting to put my shack back together after 30 years of being off the air.Brings back some good memories with my dad. Thank You
Thanks Richard. I think I have even more old radios now. Glad you are getting back into it.
Very nice tour! This is RJ from your message board.
Thanks RJ. I need to do a update video in the future. Things have changed in the shop here.
I'm going to try your trick of buying some expensive piece of equipment that doesn't work cheap on Ebay and fixing it so I found a Boonton 9200A RF Millivoltmeter for $22 that normally costs hundreds of dollars. Maybe it works and just needs cleaning up, wish me luck! It doesn't have probes and they are very expensive but look easy to make. Do you have any experience with that model?
Good luck on that steve. Some tmes it is the best way to go. Most of my radios were purchased broken and I repaired them myself. I have used that rig when I worked for EF Johnson many years ago. For 22 bucks cannot go wrong. Buddy
Maybe I will find some more things at the hamfest this weekend!
I'm glad I subscribed to your channel. That was an interesting little tour of your vast assortment of test gear and radios (plenty of subject matter for future videos there). Also, since you said that your repaired many of the items on your bench(es), I hope to see upcoming videos where you share some of your repair knowledge and experiences.
+fpliuzzi And I am glad you stopped by for a visit. Here is one good thing about old equipment, it sometimes break or needs maintenance to keep them going. Can probably make a dozen or so videos based on just that. I do have plenty of stuff in need of repair that is not in the video. And some I will do a few troubleshooting videos on. Plus always looking for bargain deals in need of resurrection. Thanks for your kind words.
+fpliuzzi Oh and thanks for subscribing
Oh wow what a lot of stuff. I love my FT736R and had many QSOs through the Oscar 13 satellite when it was running.
Subscribed!
+dogastus Yep there is a lot of junk here :)I love the 736. Good radio. Wanted one for a long time but the prices were just to high. Found this one as a tech special. Fixed her up and has been running fine ever since. Since I have a Kenwood 2000 been thinking about selling the 736. Don't know yet.Thanks for subscribing.
I love my 736... I don't think I will ever sell it... but I am thinking of picking up the sister radio, the 767 just cuz...
Thank you very much for the tour I really enjoyed it! Keep up the good work!
Thanks for watching and stay tuned for more.
Love the repair spots and the shack, esp. the vintage gear and mic's ! That National is a kind of rare rig, don't see them very often, especially if it works as I am sure it does ! 73 and hope to catch you on the air !
+dynamic881964 Thanks. The national is a nice old rig. It did quit a few weeks ago and in the process of repairing it. Will be a video soon.
I will be watching for it !
Yes the bias please thanks
I think it is shown in one of my videos.
Nice test gear. :)
+Grant Fullen Thanks,Most was someone else's problems I picked up. Then repaired. Too bad I was not doing videos then, But I have lots more equipment to repair and video. Glad you liked it.
Thanks for the tour of your shop. I got a question for you, I am trying to hook my tenma frequency counter inline. I have cb radio>coax> into a 259 T with the center pin cut down> and one end goes to my dummy load and the center goes to a coax with a BNC to my scope. How would you hook in the frequency counter to read what is in the line when you key the radio? thanks
+Jimz Custom Radios Thanks for your comment. There are several ways to do this. Like you mentioned the cut down tee to sample the signal. I myself use a sampler that I built. There are many posted on the net. One you can build is like in the video from w2aew.ua-cam.com/video/0Kk_N_TpDeoH/v-deo.htmle has several and also has one to connect your scope using X/Y mode. It has a sampler port and a de-mod pot.ua-cam.com/video/y4Zt_LJX1TcH/v-deo.htmlope this helps
+The Radio Shop Yes I subscribe to his channel also, I'm looking to somehow connect the Temba to the scope so that when I see the pattern on the scope(carrier) I can also see the frequency that the radio is on, just for tuning.
+Jimz Custom Radios Thanks! If you build that circuit in the above comment it will do all you need. I also have it on my website with parts list and schematic.gokarters.com/smf/index.php?topic=2467.msg17740#msg17740
Thank you Sir
+Jimz Custom Radios You are very welcome
Thanks for the tour... nice gear in the shack as well... 72...
Thanks for the nice comment.
Beautiful Lab !!!!!
Thank You
Excellent shop! May you have continued success. Amen. :)
+Terry McKean Thank you terry for the kind words. Many blessings and thanks for watching.
You're welcome and thank you, too.
No problem my friend. Check video #39 where I remolded the main bench.
Very great ham shack!!! How mUch an old yaesu 101 is worth??
Thank you very much. Good question Hugo. Depends what is wrong with it. I bought one for 10 bucks, but see some on ebay go for 400 bucks.
The Radio Shop wow thanks you I will keep an eye out for those!!
I have a few videos on them. The 10 buck 101. Will be doing more soon
The Radio Shop i Will watch it for sure!!
Nice bench(es) you've got there !
Reminds me, I need a bigger bench 😀😂
thanks for the tour!
You are welcome.
Jeff Moss what!! I wasnt expecting you here LOL