I have been binge watching your work the last few days, busted ankle keeping me home. Really enjoying watching you work. Radio is a bit of a thing for me since I first saw a valve radio/record player combo at my parents place back in the 70's. I love the smell of them too. The Tv stuff has been fascinating too. Also good to hear what the AM band is like in LA and what the music output is.
Yeah, I wish my AM band sounded like that here in western Oklahoma! Here it's talk radio and country oldies at best!! If I can pick up anything at all!
My RCA AM-PSB portable of the same vintage had those ganged circular dials as well. I kept having to push in the one of the AM side to get the audio to an adequate level. Never figured out what caused that issue, but it never got any worse. I finally retired it when I got my Realistic Patrolman SW-60.
actually you can, well at least here in the uk there are DAB modules that are designed to be retro fitted to old radio gear, iv'e fitted a couple they have voltage in pins and two outputs amplified and raw, so you can use an aux channel or wire it into the unit, i did a fantastic old bush radiogram for a customer, i fully rebuilt the unit then i retro fitted a dab module using the long wave section, it worked well it looks stock until you press lw then the module powers on and the 20x2 lcd display shines through the glass on the front panel, the other one i fitted was to a high end 80's hifi in that case it was wired to an AUX line, the display was fitted into a blank spot on the faceplate. so if the USA goes digital someone will undoubtedly make one to US spec.
17:11 That chunky transformer for two lights? Either it's got a built-in tanning light, or they had a bunch of leftover transformers and nothing better to do with them.
0:20 27 watts but no serviceable parts makes me think its either a 1-watt-output hot-chassis with a T066 output transistor and a huge heat sink, or a cold-chassis amp with amazing power for a radio that size. I'll guess the former.
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Sweet! Love using the light bulb as a test resistor. Very clever.
I have been binge watching your work the last few days, busted ankle keeping me home. Really enjoying watching you work. Radio is a bit of a thing for me since I first saw a valve radio/record player combo at my parents place back in the 70's. I love the smell of them too. The Tv stuff has been fascinating too. Also good to hear what the AM band is like in LA and what the music output is.
Yeah, I wish my AM band sounded like that here in western Oklahoma! Here it's talk radio and country oldies at best!! If I can pick up anything at all!
I like the 2 scales moving together
My RCA AM-PSB portable of the same vintage had those ganged circular dials as well. I kept having to push in the one of the AM side to get the audio to an adequate level. Never figured out what caused that issue, but it never got any worse. I finally retired it when I got my Realistic Patrolman SW-60.
Agreed!
You sped right past ABBA! Damn that’s about the nicest little clock radio I’ve ever seen from RCA that isn’t an old Tube radio.
Sticker says "use only genuine RCA parts". Audio output transformer is made by Sanyo, along with other parts.
I know right!!
Wow nice job and very interesting with the resistive 11w bulb! Nice
Interesting that they fitted a transformer to feed two light bulbs. Cheaper to fit two Neon Ne2 globes instead. Nice blow out on that 56 R.
I like that guy on the radio at 17:30 he's actually really good, you can tell he's one of the real ones.
My favourite person since Laurel and Hardy.
interestingly a bunch of videos are not listed into the channel, but only into the youtube suggestions... like this video
Beautiful radio! I wish I had one that looked like that and was rca!
Looks like one of those things that was built making use of a lot of tube era components.
'Maybe I should unplug this'....Hahahhahahha
Beautiful clock radio!!
love those on board fuses i got a radio combo tv works great after i put new fuse in
Moving to digital only FM should work about as well as the digital radio experiment in Britain...
I read that FFC will not make us buy HD radio because radios can't be converted to digital radio and will not stop making FM analog station
that's awesome
actually you can, well at least here in the uk there are DAB modules that are designed to be retro fitted to old radio gear, iv'e fitted a couple they have voltage in pins and two outputs amplified and raw, so you can use an aux channel or wire it into the unit, i did a fantastic old bush radiogram for a customer, i fully rebuilt the unit then i retro fitted a dab module using the long wave section, it worked well it looks stock until you press lw then the module powers on and the 20x2 lcd display shines through the glass on the front panel, the other one i fitted was to a high end 80's hifi in that case it was wired to an AUX line, the display was fitted into a blank spot on the faceplate.
so if the USA goes digital someone will undoubtedly make one to US spec.
Ha, it has the frequencies of both bands printed twice on the dials, and then 2 dials turning in sync...
This looks like should have a pack of smokes on it on a snowy morning...
now that was a fast one
17:11 That chunky transformer for two lights? Either it's got a built-in tanning light, or they had a bunch of leftover transformers and nothing better to do with them.
Nice looking unit!!!
the Sanyo electrolytic cap is interesting. Wonder if its original to the set. Let's offshore them there components, we'll make millions!!
Looks like Sanyo OEM'ed the whole thing.
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0:20 27 watts but no serviceable parts makes me think its either a 1-watt-output hot-chassis with a T066 output transistor and a huge heat sink, or a cold-chassis amp with amazing power for a radio that size. I'll guess the former.
Always leave the dead components in place to serve as an example to the others.
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I never saw an intermittent transistor before.
I regularly get products in for repair with intermittent germanium transistors. Flick them & they work!
19:56 Robert Plant's voice was really hurting in 1979. I've heard dying cats sound more melodic than that.
It's the Capacitators.
Those good old dropping resistors. They copied the GE design
Oh man you turned off Jurney
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That looks like a real piece of crap. Ugly design. Not a big fan of RCA "really crappy appliances"
+ldchappell1 Does that go back to the days when RCA owned "Whirpool" back in the early sixties?
You just made David Sarnoff cry. I could hear him through the ether.
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