ARE THESE THE BEST 1980S KIDS WALKIE TALKIES EVER MADE? I THINK SO! LETS TUNE AND TEST A PAIR THEN.
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2022
- On this video we look at a superb pair of vintage walkie talkies from Harrier, I go through the circuit and do a full recap and retune then we take them out for a range test.
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Love this mate, so cool. Great activity for father and son! Well done Tyler too. The sound difference on the Randy showed how well those actually tx
Cheers buddy
My kids are the same I get the Ok when making them test radios with me. Great stuff.
good test, thank you for making this video
Tyler is growing up so fast. What a great young man.. Bless him.
I had these when I was about 12 I think. I am 58 now so that must have been around 1978. These walkie talkies are the reason I still know the international alphabet fully by head at any moment of the day or night. We had so much fun with these. But if I remember right we had these on 27.125 (channel 14) and that was part of the fun because sometimes we had a brief contact with truck drivers if they were close. I am in The Netherlands. I do not remember the name: Harrier scout being printed on them. For the rest they are exactly as I remember them
I had a set of walkie talkies as a kid in America and they were so much fun back in the day. I also was able to use an 0ld walkie talkie that were very expensive back then. I don't know if you know the ones i am talking about but you can actually talk to the truck drivers with it.
I reckon you could save yourself from a zombie apocalypse and get rescued from at least a mile away using Morse code with that Roger beep lol.. it would have been interesting to see how far the beep carried from one radio to the other.
Yes I think you could treble the distance using morse
Good question, I actually had the same thought. They morse code is the go to when conditions are bad. I'm a believer now.
I remember our toy walkie talkies here in the states, often they only came with one crystal for transmitting (usually on channel 14) but the receiver portion didn't. The range wasn't that good at all. Back then you could have bought a pair of walkie talkies for $10 or less.
I worked for Dixons at the time and never saw these. They did the WT2 2 channel radios though. Maybe these were the previous ones? Harrier was originally their brand for air band radios. Dixons used to sell lots of those (and binoculars) from a caravan they took round air shows.
Very impressive 👏 I'm 55 now but when I was a kid I would have given my brothers right arm and his left foot for a pair of these
Same here and I bet you knew plenty of kids with a hair cut like that as well. 😊
I had a pair of those in the mid '80s, but the were branded "Danita Junior FM" here in Sweden. Had some fun with them but they absolutely did not reach the advertised range of one kilometer. The street where I grew up is 200 meters long and if I stood at one end of the street and my friend at the other, we could barely hear ech other.
I would have loved these as a child but my childhood occurred in the early 70s and I lusted after the Walkietalkies for sale in Exchange and Mart. Totally illegal and probably rubbish I never did get a set. I am well impressed with these for the market they were aimed at. As always thanks for the nostalgic video.
Great job guys!!
Here in the states I recall the units we had used CB channel 14 (27.125 Mhz).
My brother's had those, I got the hand me downs. It was fun hearing truck drivers. Then there was the crazy skip that would come in with the big Illegal stations that would boom in. I hear that these transmitted on 14, but recieved the whole cb band. Sounds about right.
Yes those were the ones I was trying to think of. Those were so expensive to.
I have this one, but the name is danita junior fm, by the way, a nice channel, greetings, from Denmark
Great video
They sounded quite good, great video knoxieman
i remember my dad got me a 2 channel walkie talkie from tandy in the UK he swapped out the antenna for a 6ft telescopic variety gave it a tune up and it work fantastic. Im sure it was harrier brand but different from the ones in the video. good bit of nostalgia that was
A very interesting test there both
So cool, I have some similar Japanese ones, back from the day when Japanese used to make sketchy quality products 😝 Thanks!
Ahhh the stink of nostalgia. Love this.
Excellent and many thanks ti you ant Tyler. It would be interesting to see how far the President Randy could pick up the Harrier transmitting. When the Randy was listening, it sounded very clear at the max range of this test. Do you know if the tone generator is CW or audio modulated? In either case, it seemed to work very well.
Very impressive. Similar radios that my pals and I had only had a range of 50 yards 🤣
The audio is really impressive on those, on both rx and tx
Amstrad HCB1 are the best I've ever used for range. Incredible to think they're only 150mW. Let down by poor TX audio, as they utilise the speaker. No separate mic.
That Morse code sounded really loud and clear when you were at the maximum of The Voice range. You should try and see how far you can go and still hear each other with the morse code. As a radio nut all my life growing up in the '80s and '70s I find your videos very interesting and fun thanks for making them.
Cheers yes I've been asked that by another user, I'll do some tests with all my sets to see.
i had one of them in the late 70 as my first walkie . trimmed pots and experimented a lot. had no papers nor another radio from the set
So much better than the godawful (and outright illegal) 49mhz variety which were doing the rounds during my childhood - very impressive.😃
Hey there! I have a pair of kids walkie talkies name “junior call dickie “ they never receive or transmit a signal unless they literally touch one another though their signal range is 220 meter. Yet, even when I bring them next to each other the voice is barely heard
They only have tow buttons; a transmitting and smaller when labeled as “code”.
I hope they can fixed so my little kids can have fun playing around with them please 🙏
Nice. I did think to myself, bet I know who will be roped into this, and Tyler was. 80's toys. We all like and had those, now with £20 PMR sets and rechargable some, things move on. these nice but to what can be bought now, kids want better. our generation of toys. I had 2 channel realalistic, Tandy ones, with a set squelch knob, on or off and a big 250mW output. Still the daft 9V battery. Good for smoke alarms, in walkie talkies, AA would have been better on the pocket money!.
I remember seeing a guy using one of these one evening in the street not long after legalisation ....he couldn't work out why no-one would answer him.....what he was hearing was all the descence and adjacent channel operator's swamping the front end of the set a few channels up or down from channel 7....cos as we all Remember in dec 81 it seemed like the whole of the uk was on air competing for 40 pieces of cake/channels ......
.poor bloke.....I did feel sorry for him and he was well perplexed as to why he was getting the "convoy 10-4 good buddy experience"....that the 17 year old spotty faced Dixon sales trainee had promised him.....
nice review though and recap well done x
Ps on the subject of Dixons cb radios ....many harrier cbxs and other rigs were returned early November 81 due to fault issues straight out of the box ...and of course dixons obliged and gave you a new one ....but a few salesman I knew wanted a big bonus so if someone came in and wanted one for a gift ito give on dec 25th they got sold a broken one to bump up there target and the wage pack .....of course knowing full well it would work and not be fitted to a car or fired up until after Christmas as it was sitting under the tree wrapped up until then.....and by the new year new ones had arrived and the crap ones returned...and the husband ...son ....or grandson ....Happy they had got one working this time ......crafty bunch ....they done exactly the same with the sale of the vic 20 computer to
Lol x
Wow that's great to hear
0:20 - You forgot your slippers 😉
You do get a hell of a lot of interference on your bench / in your house Paul. Must really annoy you. Have noticed it on many of your videos. Another fantastic video still. Great to see your son on another video. Im sure he will be featuring in many, many more to come. And you Paul, must be great to have a video log of him, and very proud. Great job Tyler👍 Look after your dad 😉💙
Yes locally I get really bad qrm it's solid
They transmit on channel 7, but how wide do they receive? I wonder if they'd still hear you if you transmitted on AM EU/FCC band, as the ones that my neighbours kids had back in the day did just that. There were 3 AM CB users within 200 yards of them and a couple of UK FM newbies close by too, which made their new toys rather difficult to use.
I remember them, I had one. They were crap....lol
They just needed a tune up 🤪
I just bought my grandkids business pmr radios because they were cheaper than kids walkie talkies
I thought this was cool but not sure if the kids walkie talkies can go that far now n days without buying the frs walkie talkies