The 'Channel Master' was manufactured in Osaka, Japan, by Sanyo. For Europe and Australasia, they were marketed as 'Sanyo' 'All wave' and their 'superheterodyne' circuits were very competitive with their tube predecessors.. I see the GE radio has used a number of parts carried over from a stockpile designed for tubes as the active amplifying devices, and with the larger audio transformers, gave a very clear sound on the bass frequencies (with a large speaker also) as transistor audio stages...
I have one of these and I can vouch for its durability. Our cat knocked it off the honkin' upper shelf 4 feet down where it hit the honkin' computer desk and bounced down another 2 1/2 feet to the honkin' floor. Guess what... not a scratch, not a dent and it still works fine. I fully expected a broken dial glass and dislodged components. It's just as if it had never fallen.
Oh my god, I owned that exact GE chrome plated model radio at one time! It worked for a month and performed better than any radio I’ve ever owned. Unfortunately, it was my early radio repair days and when that radio stoped working, I didn’t know the exacts of what to do and sold it off for cheap:(. Since then I learned about capacitors.
Lottsa good info. I enjoy your vids. Thanks. But, try getting the rigs in the picture better...only seeing half of some of 'em and maybe turn off the auto-focus.
Also annoying that for most of the video the subjects (radios) were about 30% out of frame. Not crazy about all the finger tapping too... use a pointer... not that hard to grab a pencil.
Excellent, I learned something about radio history. I just retired and hope to make a hobby of restoring old radios.. thank you.
The 'Channel Master' was manufactured in Osaka, Japan, by Sanyo. For Europe and Australasia, they were marketed as 'Sanyo' 'All wave' and their 'superheterodyne' circuits were very competitive with their tube predecessors.. I see the GE radio has used a number of parts carried over from a stockpile designed for tubes as the active amplifying devices, and with the larger audio transformers, gave a very clear sound on the bass frequencies (with a large speaker also) as transistor audio stages...
I have one of these and I can vouch for its durability. Our cat knocked it off the honkin' upper shelf 4 feet down where it hit the honkin' computer desk and bounced down another 2 1/2 feet to the honkin' floor. Guess what... not a scratch, not a dent and it still works fine. I fully expected a broken dial glass and dislodged components. It's just as if it had never fallen.
Oh my god, I owned that exact GE chrome plated model radio at one time! It worked for a month and performed better than any radio I’ve ever owned. Unfortunately, it was my early radio repair days and when that radio stoped working, I didn’t know the exacts of what to do and sold it off for cheap:(. Since then I learned about capacitors.
1:15 There used to be audio driver transformers on some designs as well as o/p tranny.
Lottsa good info. I enjoy your vids. Thanks. But, try getting the rigs in the picture better...only seeing half of some of 'em and maybe turn off the auto-focus.
Nice video, thanks :)
John. Is the Ferrite Rod covered in plastic or light -colored gray ?
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Please don't keep saying OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,OK,......dang
Also annoying that for most of the video the subjects (radios) were about 30% out of frame. Not crazy about all the finger tapping too... use a pointer... not that hard to grab a pencil.