COLT 444 - 120 CHANNEL 10 WATT VINTAGE AM/FM SET - ALIGNMENT AND TEST
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- On this video we look at a classic early AM 10W CB radio available in 2 flavours with or without FM, which one do I have and can I get it working?
I had the earlier version called the Colt 45. It was very loud as I remember, but not as loud as the magnum.
Just got one the these yesterday. It does have the AM FM pull button. It would benefit from a tune up, new power lead and a general tidy.
I had one of these radio's nice bit of kit back in mid 80's had some good reports around the world just using the standard 10w then a few yrs later picked up a Ham International Jumbo
This was my very first multi block radio and also the first radio I used to talk skip with over the pond to Columbus Ohio on AM using rig power on a mobile antenna.. I liked it simply because of the colour change in the signal meter.
Hi Paul
I have just upgraded my Tiny SA to v1.3429 the same version as yours and the mod frequency is now the same as yours, need to use .95KHz. Looks like a version bug, it was ok before the F/W upgrade.
Cheers
Chris
Paul, I have raised this with Erik at TinySA and he is looking into it. Kind regards Chris
Hi Paul
This has now been resolved in the latest firmware upgrade v1.3_504.
Kind
Check the harmonics on the 444 there were harmonica at 54m 108 m and then around 150+ and above got rid of mine straight away.
That was really clean inside, nice work
Very nice old set still work very well.
i had he 44 with the fm and it was a lovely set .. i think i sold it cheap as well yikes they are about £100 these days
Just 4 years to warm up? That must have been one of Maplins more premium irons then! Good meters them Welz same as the Revex meters i have a few of them
Nice old school radio. I had the 727 back in the day.
I used a 16 MHz crystal many moons ago it will give you most of the uk40 but due to the Alpha skips and the jumping around you’ll loose some channels
I would pull the high band crystal down on a switch and you’ll get 1-26 less channel 5 that you can use
But as it has no FM mode on this version I doubt this modification would be necessary
The paint is original too
Had one of these when i was a kid, Bought it off a guy whos handle was Sexy Rexy. Believe me he was far from sexy and he later changed his handle to pizza man which suited him much better. Mine had fm and had been modded for the UK40
I got one of these rigs putting in a 16mhz crystal will put you on 36 of the UK channels.
Great TX audio from that!
I never had the colt model but have the ham International and the cases are that colour grey
not found the download link for the manual did you forget to add this, i have the am/fm version, does about 8 1/2 watts, or if you can point me to where you got the manual ill go download it, thank you
I have a colt 444 am/fm 30 year old I found in my shed what arial would be best with it
Hello my name is Stewart in the UK, do you know how to unlock wouxun kg 1000 from the usa.it won't let me transmit on pmr channels. Thank you.
Do you work on SSB radios
I avoid them as I've not got the gear to test them sadly.