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Beautiful receiver. It's in good hands. Looking forward to the video.

Premiere intro was cool!

Super rare!

Is that an external S-meter for a National receiver?

Wow, I remember the Ray-o-vac 305 lantern flashlight when I was about 4 or 5 years old in 1969-70, now 59. As my Dad had one those Ray-o-vac lantern flashlights! 🙂 Ever brought good memories & yes nice restoration on the lantern!👍👍

I had one and I do have a DX-300. I paid $100 for it back in the 80s when it came out. Approximately $350.00 in today's money. It is quite possibly the first NEW radio I ever purchased. It is NOT a great radio. It IS a ok radio at best. It is a very simple super heterodyne design. I love how they look and it brings back great memories. Like the time I was listening to AT&T high seas.. A guy was making a radio call back to the states to his girlfriend. Halfway through the call she told him that she was now dating his best friend. The guy tried to play it off like it was no big deal but you can tell in his voice but he was crushed LOL. I'm glad to see you used deoxit on it as it is the correct thing to use. I cringe when I see people using contact cleaner on potentiometers. It will dry them out and ruined them. OK for band switches though. Rock on dude. DE W9TIT

I have one of these in storage. I plugged it in normally it is amplifier hiss. I can’t wait to get into it, and make it work again.

Absolutely love mine….no issues since I bought it new. Great video, very informative.

I had one of these when I was 15 and first discovered SW radio - loved listening to it and sending reception reports to stations for QSL cards and other goodies the stations gave away during the waning years of the Cold War. 45 years later, I've been a ham for over 22 years - what a fun radio to get me into the radio hobby. Great video, thanks!

I have the european version, LW, MW (Am band) 3 short wave bands, it drifts a bit despite a rudimentary heat sink on the transistor, switch it on and play once i a while, would like to have the kit and manual to align it it all after checking the capacitors and resistors are in spec but space and money make that seem a long way off.

How can anyone say this is a great radio. I have owned well over 100 radios. This is by far the Worst radio I have ever owned! Drifts. One way to open bandwidth. The tuning barrel that indicates frequency has marks every one or 2Mhz only, and even then it can be over 1mhz off. (eg the dial indicates "About 14500" youre on 15205) . Overloads easily. bfo is so touchy.. horrible horrible horrible HOWEVER it was the first radio i owned as a teen. and I lived in the country -high sunspot year. I loved it at the time. :) But never but one now.. you will cry!

I had one of these. I used it to listen around the world . I had a novice ham radio license but no money to buy a ham radio. This satisfied my desire to reach and listen to the world.

I can't find any information on how to completely disassemble the VU LIGHTER. HOW CAN I REPLACE THE PLUNGER SEAL (O RING). Thanks for any tips or instructions.

That’s a beautiful Cuckoo Clock. My mother had one of these German Cuckoo Clock’s back in the 1970’s as well. It also had a little spinning dance routine built into when it hit every hour. Great memories. Tom

Excellent tutorial on this #445. I had the same problem you were talking about where the nylon string was cutting a groove into the plastic. All I had to do like you said was to install a tiny eyelet. The item number for this eyelet is #259E-18. No drilling is required if you use this Lionel recommended eyelet. It fits perfectly into the hole. My #445 Operating Switch Tower works perfectly again. Tom

cool cuckooooo

Cool

The length of CPVC pipe for the MLA-30 + should be 14.5”. Apparently the length of the wire has been ‘tuned’ shorter.

Do you have a link for a video to take a part and repair the Scripto vu light. I looked on your RUclips page and don’t see one. I have a couple I need to take apart and repair. Thank

Not the best loop antenna. Frequency response is about as flat as the Rocky Mountains. Only thing in its favor is the price. I finally retired mine and replaced it with LZ1AQ's AAA active magnetic loop amplifier along with a pair of 2 m loops made from 5/8" aluminum fuel line. Super low noise and freq response flat as a pancake from 100 kHz to 30 MHz. Highly recommended.

Can we convert the LNB wired signal coming to the house to wireless? Is there such a device? For other televisions.

Metric measurements for the australia 🇦🇺

Can you send me the measurements

Great idea! But how did you attach the staff to the base? greetings from Germany. Eric

How cheap to buy?

Nice👍🇺🇸🏁

Vu lighter... Pronounced as "View lighter"

I don’t mind some radio static, white noise, for certain frequencies. Relaxing.

Loops can take on many shapes. Circular, square, diamond, etc are all loops. You were adjusting RF levels, not AF levels. You only get to AF after the detector in the radio itself.

I am not so sure that blue pot is attenuation. Measure the bias-t voltage going through the coax going to the pre-amp box and turn that pot to see if voltage changes.

where did you find the classic hallicrafters, what a beauty, haven't seen one in eons!!

Pretty sure that's how how thislittke guy works it was so fun to play with PTSR

That’s a great accessory. Great job getting it up and running. The only thing I’m curious is that the light bulb should not be going on and off like that. It was designed to stay on constant while the pump goes up and down. Tom

Nice job on the diamond configuration MLA30 project. I have an extra loop I could try this with. How does it perform with reception? any noticeable difference than the loop?

what transponder settings for Satellite 110 and 119 for Dish Network also LNB frequency settings- we have been using a Bird Dog for years but they went out of business and we travel all over the country in our RV and have to re acquire our satellite many different times

This should be gorgeous. I like the fact you're keeping the original patina.

This is very interesting. Can you provide dimensions on your PVC cross?

It is 50th Anniversary not 15th Error in the video my bad !! PTSR

Bummer I missed out!

Saw this video and found it helpful. Noobe to SWLing and do have an MLA-30. My MLa is also on PVC but the cross PVC is clever! I did get a flexible stainless steel loop element from Omni RF to replace the thin wire that originally came with the MLA 30. Will be following your channel. 72

I have been collecting flashlights for a while now but just started with vintage lights. Thanks for the tips, and do you still do restorations? I'm just wondering if I need one fixed

Why would you assume it was used by the south, when the owner was from Maine

This is all new to me. I just ordered one of these and was wondering if I can extend the antenna cable with a barrel or with that have a negative effect? Id like to put it outside in the yard, but afraid that will be more than 50ft.

Hello Randy I love your videos. These toys never made it to Europe. As far as I know. Therefore very interesting. The diver is awesome. :-) (The radio is great. My father is impressed too)

I'd forgotten about these. Good memories, thanks.

Best video of the day goes to this guy!

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So cool! Love the commercial at the end!

Cool!

Good luck on fixing them