Pony (Kanda Tsushin Kogyo Co.) was active from 1963 to today. Over the years they made toys like these to CB and marine transceivers. They branched into medical gear in the 2000s. They made this model in 1967.
Google Translate renders this as: [Momonokizaka] - A valuable export transceiver for Kanda communication. Thank you for your valuable treatment. In Japan today, the trend of not taking care of old things is widespread, so it is exciting to show old Japanese products that survive overseas 海外
When I was a kid in the 1970s we had walkie talkies that transmitted on CB channel 14(27.125mhz). They were Midland 100mw and it was fun to try and see how far we could talk on them and it surprised us how far they could go. They also had capability of adding 2 additional crystals, but I never did it. Sometimes I'd just listen and hear all sorts of stuff. Led to a later interest in shortwave radio and later becoming a ham. In spite of the fact I own a ham transceiver for HF, a 6m/2m/440mhz handheld, FRS radios, and a smart phone, this kind of technology still interests me. Thanks for making this video.
Dude those things are NICE! I used to have 4 of them as kids sears branded and gave 3 to friends in the neighborhood we used to use them like crazy and they had a very good range the things kids did before cell phones and text messaging! It got to the point of a LOT of my middle school using CB radio to set up parties and stuff using their parents old radios, mind you this was 1998 1999 and AIM was a thing but radio was free and lot of their parents had old CB stuff...
Those units are definitely from the early 60s and here's why. The RayOVac batteries are a dead giveaway. The FTC banned the word "Leakproof" on all dry cell batteries as on 1/1/64 because it was considered "false and deceptive." Those units operate on CB Ch 9 which became the REACT channel for emergencies around 1970. Ch 9 was very commonly used in 100mw units in the early to mid 60s.
Good observation. A quick look at the Radio Museum dated them to 1967. It is possible there was an earlier production or the RayOVacs were from some of the last produced with that label.
In doing a quick search of the Radio Museum, these appear to be radios sold to people organizing neighborhood Civil Defense groups around 1967. The red dots on the AM band were Emergency Broadcast System markings, a carry over from the Conelrad days.
27.065 is CB Ch 9. It was popular to include Ch 9, 11 or 14 with the unlicensed under 100mw walkie talkies back in the 1960’s. The “27” on the switch probably refers to 27 MHz. The highest CB channel at that time was 23 (27.255 MHz).
Back in the late 1980's you could buy these little transceivers, they were FM, probably family radio service, if that was even about back then. They were little belt clip radios with a headset, covered one ear and had a boom microphone. My brother-in-law and I got a set, then his boys saw them and they got some, then the rest of our deer hunting party saw them and they got some, we even took them to the game warden for an opinion if we could use them for hunting deer. His only restriction was that we could not use them while "Chasing" deer. Well we were all rather good shots and rarely if ever chased anything, one shot and they were gone. So it was, we used the hell out of those things till we flat out wore them out. they were great for checking location before taking a shot, thus could well have saved life or limb because of that. The more we used them the more we loved them. When they wore out, the place i used to order them from could no longer get them so that was that. We went back to using CB'S during driving to and from the hunting spots but that was the end of radio hunting.
My dad had a set of Japanese walkie-talkies with leather cases and little earphone pouches similar to these. I think they were on Channel 7 but I remember when the weather got rough, there was a group of amateur weather spotters that were on the same channel and I’d listen to these guys try to spot hail and tornados when the weather got severe. It was like having a front row seat to the action. These guys were pretty good, I’ve never heard anything going on that useful again on CB.
“Breaker breaker 1-4, what’s your 20, over?” Cool walkie talkies, brings back childhood memories. I had the Radio Shack Space Command kiddie walkie talkies in the ‘70s. Yep, CB channel 14, get to hear all of the truck drivers & tradespeople following FCC rules for using their CBS...NOT, lol. Fun times. Those Radio Shack talkies carried about, oh, 40 feet or so. Later on, around 1981 I had a pair of General Electric kid walkie talkies that used 49 mhz, which I believe was also used for the cordless phones of the day.
What was the range on the 49 MHz radios? I remember playing around with a pair and couldn’t get very far on those. Cordless phones, baby monitors, and other remote control toys were on 49 MHz. It would be interesting to see how the high sunspot activity would effect these very low power radios.
I later had a pair of Radio Shack Realistic TRC-85 walkie talkies, which were several levels above the $20/pair kiddie walkie talkie sets of the time(early-1980s). Came with CB channel 14 crystals, with sockets to add crystals for 2 more channels. 300 mW transmission power. One time I gave one to a friend who lived a little over 3/4 mile away to see if they would carry that distance, and sure enough we could talk to each other, just barely though, lots of static in the background.
Man I loved walkie talkies when I was a boy. I worked for my uncle putting up hay on his farm every summer, he paid us $5.00 a day, back in the 60's it was not great pay, but you could fill your gas tank and get some change if you had a car, which I didn't back then. So I saved up my coin and soon on a weeks wages, I managed to buy a brand new set of Midland Walkie Talkies. My best friend and I had a blast with them, but we were quite disappointed that we could not talk the 3 blocks that separated our homes. Back then we had phones, but were only allowed a quick call once in awhile so if they would have worked, it would have been super! We did have a lot of play battles and such with the little toys.
Nice vintage tackle. I am a ham radio operator & enjoy restoring old communications gear. Usually, the driver, as well as the final, are both modulated for AM.
18:49 is a segment from KNX-AM with a live coverage of a 4th of July earthquake. Here in New York, none of them had earthquakes, but the fireworks are there, thanks to the Macy’s 4th of July, and in Cantine Field in Saugerties, NY where I saw it since Thursday night where I did made a video of it on my channel.
These are an outstanding example of the Pony brand. I have the previous model circa 1960. The little red triangular markers on the Broadcast dial are CONELRAD (control electronic radiation) markers. During the cold war if there was the chance of a nuclear strike, tuning to the red makers would allow you to hear emergency broadcasts. For the time, these were high quality and crystal locked to a CB channel instead of coil receive. The fact that they still work proves the quality. Please preserve them or maybe find a CB historian who can place them into a museum. Cheers from Australia.
They would still be good for preppers today. FRS is severely limited while CB is not. Maybe not these ultra low power units, but there are 5 watt units. But the battery wouldn't last very long. Assuming some kind of collapse, cell phones won't work at all. FRS is really only good for things like amusement parks. They don't work at all in the woods.
I have a set of 3 Crown brand from japan 23 channel hand helds. Built like tanks all metal chassis and exterior. A real 5 watt plus output with really good audio. Modulated very easily over 100 percent, on low power 1.5 watts it swung on my watt meter on a 50 ohm load to 7.5 watts at 13.8 volts. 12 volts 5.2 or so watts. Nice sensitive receiver too. Swapped out a few of the synthesis crystals so i got 40 41 42 43. still have them after almost 40 years. Bet the xtals are all over the place by now, and the caps are leaky or dry.
Cool walkie talkies! Back in the 70s and 80s handhelds wasn´t so popular here in my country.... Someday i´ll found some ebay seller that ships me a pair overseas. Another great video Shango!
Those go back to the 1960s. I remember the yellow paint scheme on those batteries from when I was a kid in the 60s. Carbon date the old ear wax on those earphones to be sure.
I can remember when people criticized Japanese electronics. They sure beat the Chinese knock offs! Thank god there were no duracell's installed, corrosion, galore. My father inlaw worked for Ray O Vac for 35 years.......
Ray O Vac batteries are the only ones I ever buy. When Burgess batteries changed to Duracell, I was using Ray O Vac then because they're a better value then and now!
I had a buddy of mine borrow my Realistic TRC 222 walkie that I told him to try and did faintly received his 2.5 watt transmission about 6 miles away on my base station many moons ago. That was thru a populated area that had allot of trees at night so I was proud of it. I was not proud of spending the money then for the eight AA batteries it required.
Nice radios but what did you have to pony up for the two ponies? The old batteries are very cool looking. Maybe you should send one to Duracell so they can find out how to make a leak proof battery. 👏🏻👍📻
There were these Walkie talkies in the late 70s, I remember they were 15$ a pair. They transmitted on CB Channel 14 as I recall. The range was really short but You could talk a few blocks!
True Value , Ace is the place , none the less pretty cool! Ray O Vac was at one time in the Madison/Middleton Wisconsin area. There was a time before alkaline batteries. Anyone remember Mercury transistor radio batteries? That was a type/construction "Mercury" not a brand. Speaking of brand Anyone remember Burgess batteries or when Mallory made the "copper top" cells?
Mallory became Duracell in the early 1970s, EverReady became Energizer about the same time. Energizer bought Ray O Vac about 10 years ago. Energizer made Enercell batteries for Radio Shack until about 1990, when the chain switched to Ray O Vac as their supplier.
100MW was typical power for these type walkie talkies, been doing electronics for 50 years never seen walkie talkies with BCB radio built in. Neat sets. Ch.9 was common but Ch.14 was even more common.
Walkie talkies were all the rage from 1975 to 78 me and all my friends had hand held CB,s It was super popular until the novelty wore off along with disco.
Surprising the vinyl/pleather is in such good shape on something stored in an attic in L.A. I would have thought it would have been all shrunken, and baked, unless they have a climate controlled attic. When working at a hardware store as a teenager in high school, I remember being tasked with going into the crawl space of the attic, and cleaning out old paperwork that had been up there since the 60's. Ended up finding some interesting old merchandise that had been stored up there. Nothing as cool as this though.
I remember getting walkie talkies for Christmas 2002 or 2003 and hearing some random guy talking when my dad and i was trying them out in the back yard. Being an elementary school kid it was kind of freaky to me.
I remember we had Fanon brand walkie talkies made for the Canadian market when we were kids in the 70's and their transmit power was limited to 10 or 20 milliwatts on channel 14. The range was only a couple of hundred feet.
Brings back memories of a pair of CB walkies that I had received for Christmas in the late sixties. Mine were strictly CB but with no squelch control, they could drive you crazy. Fast forward to the eighties and nineties, have my service monitor active with 1 KHz tone deviating at 4.1 MHz, boss is complaining the noise is driving him crazy, what noise? Might be a very unselective receiver but I have also seen AM stations with birdies on their output, seems no one listened to much AM in central Ohio so no one complained about seeing them on the dial in several places, not even the boys from the Fantastic Candy Company made much effort to quell the issue. Hey why don't they re farm out the AM band to aviation and leave our 2 meter stuff alone? Hearing a lot of QRM in the circles that thy wont even abandon APRS if they refarm the band, too much equipment out there running data.
Fascinating! Interesting about the battery price. I can't remember when they were 20 cents a pop but I can remember when they were a nickel a pop back in the 50's. So maybe the Pony units are from the60's and the fixed frequency is within the original CB band and not the extended 1976 one.
My mate had a pair of Fanon 3 transistor walkie talkies back in 1977. They were really cool but illegal to use here in the UK. We had loads of fun with them as 11 year olds even though they only had a range of 100 yards. They were on 27.125, channel 14. By 1980, CB (still illegal) had become popular and we managed to talk to people as they drove past us in their cars. Great days!
Have this same set, dad bought new in early 70’s for deer hunting here in Florida. CB in the truck, HT in the stand. They were expensive at the time...
Yes, I thought they appear to be far older than what Shango said in the beginning anyways... Mid 60s to early 70s... PNP germanium, transformer coupling in the AF section, and the case design point to it.
WESTEL Audio I’m sure you are correct. It had to be about 70’ or 71’ when my Dad got his set and the reason he did was all his hunting buddies had already been using them for a couple of years. That would put them into the late 60’s at the earliest.
From Los Angeles we all survived the quake. If you live out here you deal with it. That's just the way it is. I believe 1976 in my opinion was one of the worst.
Man, those look awesome and seem to work very well. A true luxury compared to the crappy walkie-talkies I had as a kid (9v batteries, useless range). I feel like and envious kid right now.
i had a pair OGF cb radio walkies long ago. i dont remember the brand that ur showing though. like u said they look NEW too. most newer radios u wont find schematics, but, for one i got which is a santec HT1200 VHF monobander, i have a schematic. i might, or might not show it in a video but who knows. to clean battery contacts, use a no. 2 pencil erasor and rub it along the metal contact. i've done that to some of the gear i got and it comes back from the dead lol.
The 27.065 crystal is the transmit - that's the CB frequency. The 28.010 is the receive crystal. It runs the local oscillator, which of course is going to be offset from the receive by the IF frequency (which seems to be 945KHz - kind of odd. I would have expected 455KHz.)
The 945kHz IF might be the reason it receives KNX across the whole dial. It's a strong station, close to 945kHz (1070kHz), probably the IF stage picks it up. How they ended up with an IF frequency which is in the broadcast band they want to receive? Is this even possible?
I have 4 pieces of Varta carbon-zinc batteries from 1978 (or expired in 1978), all of them has 1.2-1.4V in them, and not leaking! Unusable though, due to very high internal resistance. If I put all 4 of them in series, they can barely make a red LED glow without any current limiting resistor. Sub-mA short circuit current. I guess they just silently dried out instead of leaking. They were in a vintage Grundig 17" portable color TV as channel memory backup.
People are saying late 60's. Sort of surprised to see those clear plastic AM tuner modules from something that old. Always assumed those were more modern. Found in every cheap radio since I was a kid in the 80's.
Your probably right with your guess about them being loaners for projects. I'm the 3rd generation of a family of electricians and we would use walkie talkies at least as far back as the 80's. And we still use a set of tiny Midland rechargeable ones today. Even if we do all have phones on us it's just much easier to hit the button and start talking when we need something than to try to call, wait for them to get their phone out and answer to ask. Some cool tech you found there.
"it got 9 transistors", back in 70's it'd sounds like "hexacore smartphone today with 6GB of RAM". Others might still be using vacuum tubes back then, this one got 9 transistors!
on a 2nd thought, it still retain more than 95% usability today, function almost perfectly 100%, just a bit corroded battery terminals. Compared to early android 1.5 smartphone of early 2000 that almost lost all of its functionality today, this CB radio really doing very well.
At one point Mallory/Duracell use to offer a Corrosion Warranty and their batteries rarely leaked. Then they stopped the warranty and their batteries leaked all the time....
Always loved walkie talkies as a kid, always trying to make them go further. Those are cool, don't come across them anymore here, probably all wrecked by kids and binned along time ago. Nothing worse than having batteries left in, thank God they weren't Duracell. .
I've been looking to contact you about shipping you a item. Your channel description says to refer to the mining channel for contact information but I didn't see any there. It isn't really anything super special but a cool historical radio that I took that was left out to rot from a place called Rosie's Diner here in Michigan. The radio itself is weather worn, some knobs missing. No exterior housing but has a old front panel. But from my little knowledge it looks like a unit that would have been in a wall anyway. It certainly has a 1950s look to it with styling, plenty of vacuum tubes on its board. Maybe add it to your horde if you got one, rob parts etc. I feel maybe the old thing is better off in your hands as who knows maybe you could give it life once more. Also to everyone else, I didn't steal it to anyone that may ask. I was there shortly after the new owners bought the place out to help clean the inside out as someone broke in shortly after Aaron bought it. It was used to prop the door open while people cleaned the buildings interiors. Because bleach and ammonia equal death.
6:50 Many years ago, the major battery Mfg companies guaranteed not only flashlights, but any electronics that your put their batteries into. That didn't last long... 😉
Stay safe over there , them Earth quakes might get bad at times,.. hope all goes well though and nothing happens, other than that keep the videos a coming as they are all enjoyable and one can learn alot from them. now as far as dogs eating pot, that's a new one i figured they would know enough to stay away from it.
Nice set of walkies. I didn't see a microphone in it so it must use the speaker as a mic. I have a couple of CB radios. Only one works, the other makes this loud buzzing sound when you turn it on and volume control does nothing.
I have the same radio the date on mine is 1964 I don't know the month. I'm learning electronics the am broadcast radio works but the CB portion does not I recapped it and there's a very little bit of CB audio but I want it to work right. Do you think it could be the detector diode it reads really high I don't know if the diode works just for the am broadcast part or if it's for the CB as well part I don't know I am still learning I guess what I am asking is if you think I should replace the diode
I have a "Great" brand transceiver. It's cheap and has a morse code key. (No squelch) Got it for my birthday in 1977. Used to have the pair, but I messed one up. I couldn't find any "Great" brand on eBay. I haven't checked lately. I remember the fun of walkie talkies. I used to listen to CBers a lot on it. Could not transmit far, though. And only on channel 14.
Pony (Kanda Tsushin Kogyo Co.) was active from 1963 to today. Over the years they made toys like these to CB and marine transceivers. They branched into medical gear in the 2000s. They made this model in 1967.
1967 Wow!!
Wow... look at the condition. I was fascinated with walkie talkies as a kid.
神田通信の貴重な輸出用トランシーバーですね🎵
大切に扱っていただき感謝いたします。
今の日本では、古い物を大切にしない風潮が蔓延していますので、海外で生き残っている昔の日本製品を見せていただき感激です😆🎵🎵
Google Translate renders this as: [Momonokizaka] - A valuable export transceiver for Kanda communication. Thank you for your valuable treatment. In Japan today, the trend of not taking care of old things is widespread, so it is exciting to show old Japanese products that survive overseas 海外
Really cool looking.
Can you even imagine what is squirled away in back rooms and attics of old stores around the country?
Free energy generator from the 1930s probably we never know!
When I was a kid in the 1970s we had walkie talkies that transmitted on CB channel 14(27.125mhz). They were Midland 100mw and it was fun to try and see how far we could talk on them and it surprised us how far they could go. They also had capability of adding 2 additional crystals, but I never did it. Sometimes I'd just listen and hear all sorts of stuff. Led to a later interest in shortwave radio and later becoming a ham. In spite of the fact I own a ham transceiver for HF, a 6m/2m/440mhz handheld, FRS radios, and a smart phone, this kind of technology still interests me. Thanks for making this video.
Dude those things are NICE! I used to have 4 of them as kids sears branded and gave 3 to friends in the neighborhood we used to use them like crazy and they had a very good range the things kids did before cell phones and text messaging! It got to the point of a LOT of my middle school using CB radio to set up parties and stuff using their parents old radios, mind you this was 1998 1999 and AIM was a thing but radio was free and lot of their parents had old CB stuff...
Those units are definitely from the early 60s and here's why. The RayOVac batteries are a dead giveaway. The FTC banned the word "Leakproof" on all dry cell batteries as on 1/1/64 because it was considered "false and deceptive." Those units operate on CB Ch 9 which became the REACT channel for emergencies around 1970. Ch 9 was very commonly used in 100mw units in the early to mid 60s.
Good observation. A quick look at the Radio Museum dated them to 1967. It is possible there was an earlier production or the RayOVacs were from some of the last produced with that label.
@@comment2009 I'll bet the Crown batteries were the OEM batteries supplied with the radio and the Ray-O-Vacs was NOS installed by the hardware store.
The moment I saw '20 cents' on those Ray-o-Vac batteries, I knew they were from the 1960s.
Their is just something about that sound that brings so many memories back as a kid tuning a radio at night time in bed.
They work just good enough to have your buddy turn the water on when you ask to turn it off.
If your buddy’s listening!
In doing a quick search of the Radio Museum, these appear to be radios sold to people organizing neighborhood Civil Defense groups around 1967. The red dots on the AM band were Emergency Broadcast System markings, a carry over from the Conelrad days.
27.065 is CB Ch 9. It was popular to include Ch 9, 11 or 14 with the unlicensed under 100mw walkie talkies back in the 1960’s. The “27” on the switch probably refers to 27 MHz. The highest CB channel at that time was 23 (27.255 MHz).
I have one what is the modulation pod on the pony walkie talkie
What is the modulation pod on the pony walkie talkie
Back in the late 1980's you could buy these little transceivers, they were FM, probably family radio service, if that was even about back then. They were little belt clip radios with a headset, covered one ear and had a boom microphone. My brother-in-law and I got a set, then his boys saw them and they got some, then the rest of our deer hunting party saw them and they got some, we even took them to the game warden for an opinion if we could use them for hunting deer. His only restriction was that we could not use them while "Chasing" deer. Well we were all rather good shots and rarely if ever chased anything, one shot and they were gone. So it was, we used the hell out of those things till we flat out wore them out. they were great for checking location before taking a shot, thus could well have saved life or limb because of that. The more we used them the more we loved them. When they wore out, the place i used to order them from could no longer get them so that was that. We went back to using CB'S during driving to and from the hunting spots but that was the end of radio hunting.
My dad had a set of Japanese walkie-talkies with leather cases and little earphone pouches similar to these. I think they were on Channel 7 but I remember when the weather got rough, there was a group of amateur weather spotters that were on the same channel and I’d listen to these guys try to spot hail and tornados when the weather got severe. It was like having a front row seat to the action. These guys were pretty good, I’ve never heard anything going on that useful again on CB.
AM radio actually sounds good! Good stuff!
“Breaker breaker 1-4, what’s your 20, over?” Cool walkie talkies, brings back childhood memories. I had the Radio Shack Space Command kiddie walkie talkies in the ‘70s. Yep, CB channel 14, get to hear all of the truck drivers & tradespeople following FCC rules for using their CBS...NOT, lol. Fun times. Those Radio Shack talkies carried about, oh, 40 feet or so. Later on, around 1981 I had a pair of General Electric kid walkie talkies that used 49 mhz, which I believe was also used for the cordless phones of the day.
What was the range on the 49 MHz radios? I remember playing around with a pair and couldn’t get very far on those. Cordless phones, baby monitors, and other remote control toys were on 49 MHz. It would be interesting to see how the high sunspot activity would effect these very low power radios.
Wonderful find, I'd love to come across some of those. Glad you're safe after the 6.4 and 7.1!
I later had a pair of Radio Shack Realistic TRC-85 walkie talkies, which were several levels above the $20/pair kiddie walkie talkie sets of the time(early-1980s). Came with CB channel 14 crystals, with sockets to add crystals for 2 more channels. 300 mW transmission power. One time I gave one to a friend who lived a little over 3/4 mile away to see if they would carry that distance, and sure enough we could talk to each other, just barely though, lots of static in the background.
Man I loved walkie talkies when I was a boy. I worked for my uncle putting up hay on his farm every summer, he paid us $5.00 a day, back in the 60's it was not great pay, but you could fill your gas tank and get some change if you had a car, which I didn't back then. So I saved up my coin and soon on a weeks wages, I managed to buy a brand new set of Midland Walkie Talkies. My best friend and I had a blast with them, but we were quite disappointed that we could not talk the 3 blocks that separated our homes. Back then we had phones, but were only allowed a quick call once in awhile so if they would have worked, it would have been super! We did have a lot of play battles and such with the little toys.
Nice vintage tackle. I am a ham radio operator & enjoy restoring old communications gear. Usually, the driver, as well as the final, are both modulated for AM.
Keep these vids coming! Can't get enough. Those radios were sweet!
Nice find, really great condition. I'd like to have one of those just for the radio.
Felt that shaker here in Vegas. It's weird to think I know exactly where I was when you were filming this.
18:49 is a segment from KNX-AM with a live coverage of a 4th of July earthquake. Here in New York, none of them had earthquakes, but the fireworks are there, thanks to the Macy’s 4th of July, and in Cantine Field in Saugerties, NY where I saw it since Thursday night where I did made a video of it on my channel.
These are an outstanding example of the Pony brand. I have the previous model circa 1960.
The little red triangular markers on the Broadcast dial are CONELRAD (control electronic radiation) markers.
During the cold war if there was the chance of a nuclear strike, tuning to the red makers would allow you to hear emergency broadcasts.
For the time, these were high quality and crystal locked to a CB channel instead of coil receive. The fact that they still work proves the quality.
Please preserve them or maybe find a CB historian who can place them into a museum. Cheers from Australia.
Coolness. AND it's listed as COMEDY. Best show going anywhere. Thanks Shango66!
27.065 is channel 9 emergency frequency-those are cool probably for preppers back in the day.
They would still be good for preppers today. FRS is severely limited while CB is not. Maybe not these ultra low power units, but there are 5 watt units. But the battery wouldn't last very long. Assuming some kind of collapse, cell phones won't work at all. FRS is really only good for things like amusement parks. They don't work at all in the woods.
Is that GMRS? Also, I looked up that awr 4000 and it requires a license.
I have a set of 3 Crown brand from japan 23 channel hand helds. Built like tanks all metal chassis and exterior. A real 5 watt plus output with really good audio. Modulated very easily over 100 percent, on low power 1.5 watts it swung on my watt meter on a 50 ohm load to 7.5 watts at 13.8 volts. 12 volts 5.2 or so watts. Nice sensitive receiver too. Swapped out a few of the synthesis crystals so i got 40 41 42 43. still have them after almost 40 years. Bet the xtals are all over the place by now, and the caps are leaky or dry.
Amazing what you find in old Hardware stores, I've done that and came away with a couple of cases of 32 volt light bulbs.
Im curious what are they intended for at that voltage
@@faumnamara5181 Many farm light plants used 32 volt lamps and appliances, and I remember my grandpa telling me the railroad used 32 volt bulbs.
@@faumnamara5181 ....Marine use.
would fit in nicely with todays 48volt lithium powered electric bikes..
Cool walkie talkies!
Back in the 70s and 80s handhelds wasn´t so popular here in my country.... Someday i´ll found some ebay seller that ships me a pair overseas.
Another great video Shango!
Those go back to the 1960s. I remember the yellow paint scheme on those batteries from when I was a kid in the 60s. Carbon date the old ear wax on those earphones to be sure.
I can remember when people criticized Japanese electronics. They sure beat the Chinese knock offs! Thank god there were no duracell's installed, corrosion, galore. My father inlaw worked for Ray O Vac for 35 years.......
Ray O Vac batteries are the only ones I ever buy. When Burgess batteries changed to Duracell, I was using Ray O Vac then because they're a better value then and now!
Fun video! Those were definitely made in the Sixties.
I hope LA survives all these quakes....
Really nice find I love this early stuff
I had a buddy of mine borrow my Realistic TRC 222 walkie that I told him to try and did faintly received his 2.5 watt transmission about 6 miles away on my base station many moons ago. That was thru a populated area that had allot of trees at night so I was proud of it. I was not proud of spending the money then for the eight AA batteries it required.
Nice radios but what did you have to pony up for the two ponies? The old batteries are very cool looking. Maybe you should send one to Duracell so they can find out how to make a leak proof battery. 👏🏻👍📻
we should demand rayovac return him 80cents for the 4 batteries and 2,500dollars for the radio it damaged from its leak proof warranty!!
There were these Walkie talkies in the late 70s, I remember they were 15$ a pair. They transmitted on CB Channel 14 as I recall. The range was really short but You could talk a few blocks!
True Value , Ace is the place , none the less pretty cool!
Ray O Vac was at one time in the Madison/Middleton Wisconsin area. There was a time before alkaline batteries. Anyone remember Mercury transistor radio batteries? That was a type/construction "Mercury" not a brand. Speaking of brand Anyone remember Burgess batteries or when Mallory made the "copper top" cells?
Even when they were Mallory, their batteries leaked like crazy. Now I call them Duraleaks.
Ads in Australia still call the Duracell the copper top battery
Look athe ARRL handbook from 50s and 60s - burgess - Mallory . Saw some in 70s too in India no less
Mallory became Duracell in the early 1970s, EverReady became Energizer about the same time. Energizer bought Ray O Vac about 10 years ago. Energizer made Enercell batteries for Radio Shack until about 1990, when the chain switched to Ray O Vac as their supplier.
Maybe the radios were for the hardware store employees to talk to each other around the store property.
Domen Gregorčič no a cellphone can and will eventually give you radio cancer
this was the 70s/80s
100MW was typical power for these type walkie talkies, been doing electronics for 50 years never seen walkie talkies with BCB radio built in. Neat sets. Ch.9 was common but Ch.14 was even more common.
100 megawatts?
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not on these batteries
my cheap motorola 467mhz walkies run 5 watts.. cant we make these old AM run like 5 or 10 watts instead of 100miliwatt?
Walkie talkies were all the rage from 1975 to 78 me and all my friends had hand held CB,s It was super popular until the novelty wore off along with disco.
Surprising the vinyl/pleather is in such good shape on something stored in an attic in L.A. I would have thought it would have been all shrunken, and baked, unless they have a climate controlled attic.
When working at a hardware store as a teenager in high school, I remember being tasked with going into the crawl space of the attic, and cleaning out old paperwork that had been up there since the 60's. Ended up finding some interesting old merchandise that had been stored up there. Nothing as cool as this though.
17:00 meter adjust can increase sensitivity.
This unit is probably 50mw
I remember getting walkie talkies for Christmas 2002 or 2003 and hearing some random guy talking when my dad and i was trying them out in the back yard. Being an elementary school kid it was kind of freaky to me.
I remember we had Fanon brand walkie talkies made for the Canadian market when we were kids in the 70's and their transmit power was limited to 10 or 20 milliwatts on channel 14. The range was only a couple of hundred feet.
I've had Duracrap batteries leak straight out of the package.
They remind me of a set I had as a kid in the late 70’s & stay safe with those quakes happening near you, shango. Xxoo😘
Those 2 earthquakes were pretty strong from the ie. Good video
Brings back memories of a pair of CB walkies that I had received for Christmas in the late sixties. Mine were strictly CB but with no squelch control, they could drive you crazy. Fast forward to the eighties and nineties, have my service monitor active with 1 KHz tone deviating at 4.1 MHz, boss is complaining the noise is driving him crazy, what noise?
Might be a very unselective receiver but I have also seen AM stations with birdies on their output, seems no one listened to much AM in central Ohio so no one complained about seeing them on the dial in several places, not even the boys from the Fantastic Candy Company made much effort to quell the issue.
Hey why don't they re farm out the AM band to aviation and leave our 2 meter stuff alone? Hearing a lot of QRM in the circles that thy wont even abandon APRS if they refarm the band, too much equipment out there running data.
I have a heavy duty AA battery from the early 80s that is completely and entirely flat but didn't leak at all, now that puts Duracell to shame!
From my experience they tend to leak if they are constantly under load as they are dying. Left alone and unconnected they don't seem to leak...
I had a Duracell battery well 2 of them in a digital thermometer and they both leaked.
@@steviebboy69 panasonic batteries is much better
They probably are better batteries, the Panasonic's, normally I use NImH ones anyway rather than single use ones.
What type of battery was it? Alkaline? Carbon? NiCd?
CracklePony radios? Hope you & yours are all safe during these earthquakes. Maybe it's Radiotvphononut testing his packaging materials!
Built a concrete bunker, wrapped the radio in the usual packing style, filled it full of dynamite and bombs away!
A friend of my moms who lived out near the la area had a nervous breakdown he could not live through any more earthquakes
Love all the videos dude .better than American dad with free pan cakes ..Love it top man
Fascinating! Interesting about the battery price. I can't remember when they were 20 cents a pop but I can remember when they were a nickel a pop back in the 50's. So maybe the Pony units are from the60's and the fixed frequency is within the original CB band and not the extended 1976 one.
My mate had a pair of Fanon 3 transistor walkie talkies back in 1977. They were really cool but illegal to use here in the UK. We had loads of fun with them as 11 year olds even though they only had a range of 100 yards. They were on 27.125, channel 14. By 1980, CB (still illegal) had become popular and we managed to talk to people as they drove past us in their cars. Great days!
I had 2 hallicrafter radios in the 1960's.Excellent radios
Have this same set, dad bought new in early 70’s for deer hunting here in Florida. CB in the truck, HT in the stand. They were expensive at the time...
Yes, I thought they appear to be far older than what Shango said in the beginning anyways... Mid 60s to early 70s... PNP germanium, transformer coupling in the AF section, and the case design point to it.
WESTEL Audio I’m sure you are correct. It had to be about 70’ or 71’ when my Dad got his set and the reason he did was all his hunting buddies had already been using them for a couple of years. That would put them into the late 60’s at the earliest.
Had one . Found in hock shop. Was a good "Amer", and could talk to the neighbor. And was a companion for the road in my army days.
Vintage classic cool make these radio's work brand new🙂🤘
From Los Angeles we all survived the quake. If you live out here you deal with it. That's just the way it is. I believe 1976 in my opinion was one of the worst.
Man, those look awesome and seem to work very well. A true luxury compared to the crappy walkie-talkies I had as a kid (9v batteries, useless range). I feel like and envious kid right now.
i had a pair OGF cb radio walkies long ago. i dont remember the brand that ur showing though. like u said they look NEW too. most newer radios u wont find schematics, but, for one i got which is a santec HT1200 VHF monobander, i have a schematic. i might, or might not show it in a video but who knows. to clean battery contacts, use a no. 2 pencil erasor and rub it along the metal contact. i've done that to some of the gear i got and it comes back from the dead lol.
Fantastic video!! Just great! Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I wish my hardware stores could find something like this 😂 thats so cool!
The 27.065 crystal is the transmit - that's the CB frequency. The 28.010 is the receive crystal. It runs the local oscillator, which of course is going to be offset from the receive by the IF frequency (which seems to be 945KHz - kind of odd. I would have expected 455KHz.)
The 945kHz IF might be the reason it receives KNX across the whole dial. It's a strong station, close to 945kHz (1070kHz), probably the IF stage picks it up. How they ended up with an IF frequency which is in the broadcast band they want to receive? Is this even possible?
Hello shango066, oh wow Vintage Pony Radio and very nice video!!!
Those were great for when Dad is on the roof adjusting the TV antenna and he could ask "How about now!?" Those were probably 300mw output. 👍 😆
Love your vidoes hope everyone and you stay safe from them quakes . Hope you have great week.
super cool. enjoyed the camera dancing to the music !
Could you measure the batteries? I wonder if they have a few mV in them?
I have 4 pieces of Varta carbon-zinc batteries from 1978 (or expired in 1978), all of them has 1.2-1.4V in them, and not leaking! Unusable though, due to very high internal resistance. If I put all 4 of them in series, they can barely make a red LED glow without any current limiting resistor. Sub-mA short circuit current. I guess they just silently dried out instead of leaking. They were in a vintage Grundig 17" portable color TV as channel memory backup.
oooh interesting, thanks
You scored on those!
People are saying late 60's. Sort of surprised to see those clear plastic AM tuner modules from something that old. Always assumed those were more modern. Found in every cheap radio since I was a kid in the 80's.
Your probably right with your guess about them being loaners for projects. I'm the 3rd generation of a family of electricians and we would use walkie talkies at least as far back as the 80's. And we still use a set of tiny Midland rechargeable ones today. Even if we do all have phones on us it's just much easier to hit the button and start talking when we need something than to try to call, wait for them to get their phone out and answer to ask. Some cool tech you found there.
Top man hope everyone is ok after the drama .lots of love to you all in cali
clearly this means we will see shango at broncon
If Duracell stood over there products they would have gone out of business years ago. Just a name now.
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The 20-cent price on the batteries make me think they were from about 1965-67.
Back when a dollar was worth something. You could not buy even one of those batteries today for a dollar.
So cool and super interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Anything that comes with a leather case...is cool💯👍✌️
These reek of 1960's not 1970's.
60s, definitely.
@@billmyke746 I was thinking no later than the early 70's.
Apparently, these were manufactured in 1967.
"it got 9 transistors", back in 70's it'd sounds like "hexacore smartphone today with 6GB of RAM".
Others might still be using vacuum tubes back then, this one got 9 transistors!
on a 2nd thought, it still retain more than 95% usability today, function almost perfectly 100%, just a bit corroded battery terminals.
Compared to early android 1.5 smartphone of early 2000 that almost lost all of its functionality today, this CB radio really doing very well.
Nice to see something minty fresh after all those baked TVs.
I had a Westinghouse with channel 11 back in the early 60's. it's how I got my CB Handel
Very lucky with those batteries, could have been a mess inside there. Oh... I just saw the "ray-o-vacs". Still, they lasted well.
At one point Mallory/Duracell use to offer a Corrosion Warranty and their batteries rarely leaked. Then they stopped the warranty and their batteries leaked all the time....
What are the modulation pod for loud modulation
Always loved walkie talkies as a kid, always trying to make them go further. Those are cool, don't come across them anymore here, probably all wrecked by kids and binned along time ago. Nothing worse than having batteries left in, thank God they weren't Duracell. .
Great video Shango.
I've been looking to contact you about shipping you a item. Your channel description says to refer to the mining channel for contact information but I didn't see any there.
It isn't really anything super special but a cool historical radio that I took that was left out to rot from a place called Rosie's Diner here in Michigan. The radio itself is weather worn, some knobs missing. No exterior housing but has a old front panel. But from my little knowledge it looks like a unit that would have been in a wall anyway. It certainly has a 1950s look to it with styling, plenty of vacuum tubes on its board. Maybe add it to your horde if you got one, rob parts etc. I feel maybe the old thing is better off in your hands as who knows maybe you could give it life once more.
Also to everyone else, I didn't steal it to anyone that may ask. I was there shortly after the new owners bought the place out to help clean the inside out as someone broke in shortly after Aaron bought it. It was used to prop the door open while people cleaned the buildings interiors. Because bleach and ammonia equal death.
Anyway, reply with info if interested and give me your email or other means of contact or feel free to email me at Esktrakay@protonmail.com
Ray-O Vac. Memories of Chinese Christmas presents in the 70's!
6:50 Many years ago, the major battery Mfg companies guaranteed not only flashlights, but any electronics that your put their batteries into. That didn't last long... 😉
Until the late 50s, I bet about 99% of batteries sold were for flashlights.
I like the .20cent price on the batteries.
I had some Midlands and Channel Masters when I was a child.
Early to mid 1960's. Channel 9 emergency channel on CB band.
60's ~early 70's just based on some of the junk I own.
Stay safe over there , them Earth quakes might get bad at times,.. hope all goes well though and nothing happens, other than that keep the videos a coming as they are all enjoyable and one can learn alot from them. now as far as dogs eating pot, that's a new one i figured they would know enough to stay away from it.
Nice set of walkies. I didn't see a microphone in it so it must use the speaker as a mic.
I have a couple of CB radios. Only one works, the other makes this loud buzzing sound when you turn it on and volume control does nothing.
I have the same radio the date on mine is 1964 I don't know the month. I'm learning electronics the am broadcast radio works but the CB portion does not I recapped it and there's a very little bit of CB audio but I want it to work right. Do you think it could be the detector diode it reads really high I don't know if the diode works just for the am broadcast part or if it's for the CB as well part I don't know I am still learning I guess what I am asking is if you think I should replace the diode
I have a "Great" brand transceiver. It's cheap and has a morse code key. (No squelch) Got it for my birthday in 1977. Used to have the pair, but I messed one up. I couldn't find any "Great" brand on eBay. I haven't checked lately. I remember the fun of walkie talkies. I used to listen to CBers a lot on it. Could not transmit far, though. And only on channel 14.
1967 vintage: www.radiomuseum.org/r/kandatsush_pony_transceiver_cbr_11.html
The batteries have a date on them?
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