As a SPEECH Expert, I can tell how much you enjoy doing this by the tone in your voice... I do expect that at sometime, after you fix something, you will get up and start to DANCE!!!! 🙂 Robert
Love all your vids Ronnie, I especially enjoy amateur repair time tho, kinda "out of your element" repairs and it just shows that with a little time and a brain you can fix most anything. Always loved your style too, light hearted and entertaining. Nothing big to say here just a positive comment and hopefully it will put a smile on your face! Keep em coming Ronnie, enjoyed as always buddy! :)
I'm very glad to see someone such as yourself who's into tube radio repair, who can take a video meant to be light hearted for what it is. A lot of the repair guys take themselves so seriously. Thank you for watching, I'll see you on the next one. I'm working on some brand new videos right now, these ones are previous ones I recorded awhile back. Right now I'm working on a little Sylvania AA5 set.
I remember seeing a vintage late 1940's or early 50's art deco style slide lap guitar for playing Hawaiian or country music back in the day that had the same (extremely obscure) screw-on cord connector like those 3 screw-on contact coax input connectors on the old signal generator.
nothing wrong with the heathkit stuff, service grade equipment vs lab grade equipment to me and service grade for aligning/checking old radios is plenty. to couple it to your radio use a clip and get a length of wire make a small loop and hang it near the antenna. the capacitor is needed if you hook directly to the circuit. very entertaining content here!
Thank you! I've been watching the AA5 channel here on youtube and I like how he hangs the wire near it like you mentioned, I've used this little piece to align 5 or 6 radios now, works great for what I need! Heathkit is aok with me.
I gave up listening to my local stations here in my little area of Western Australia years ago. In the Bunbury WA area, I have access to Hit FM! (95.7 FM), Triple J (99.3 FM), Triple M SouthWest (936.0 AM), Spirit Radio (621 AM), and ABC SouthWest WA (684 AM), and they all suck (based on my likes). Unfortunately due to how radios work over here, they only transmit with just enough power to cover the areas they are licensed to cover. On an extremely, EXTREMLY clear day, you can pick up 92.9FM (Triple M Perth), but only in certain areas of where I live. So I listen to the radio via the Internet, my preference is for 96FM (Broadcasts out of Perth to the Perth and surrounds areas). I like the station because it plays music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and some more modern ones from the 00s on occasions :) It's always fascination watching your radio repair videos, and just seeing how far your stations can broadcast, even our AM ones aren't allowed to broadcast those kinds of distances, and Western Australia is huge compared to any other US state.
I wonder what the wattage is of those stations? Over here they let you be 50,000 watts but cap it at that.... with a really good radio you can pick stuff up all up and down the east coast so maybe 500 miles or more if the atmosphere is perfect for it.
@@AmateurRepairTime Googling, it looks like ABC Radio was upgraded to 50kW back in the '50s, not sure if they still run that power level (I can't even figure out how to Google it), but that doesn't surprise me, ABC is a government funded station (TV and Radio). Triple J is an ABC Radio station too, but they tend to play more modern stuff compared to ABC Radio which sticks mostly to the oldies type stuff. Looks like FM is usually around 1W but can be upwards of 5W. Some basic Googling says that Triple M (Commercial AM station all around Australia) uses around 2kW in a lot of their locations, which suggests to me that ABC Radio might be the only one legally allowed to operate at such high power levels.
As a SPEECH Expert, I can tell how much you enjoy doing this by the tone in your voice... I do expect that at sometime, after you fix something, you will get up and start to DANCE!!!! 🙂
Robert
Mr Carlsons Lab is a wonderful source to learn about aligning radios.
Favorite radio video is when Ronnie says, “I’ll take this radio for $10” seller says “I BET YOU WILL!”
That's this one, LOL ruclips.net/video/45zKCxKvycA/видео.html
@@AmateurRepairTimeyupp thats the one! 😂
Love all your vids Ronnie, I especially enjoy amateur repair time tho, kinda "out of your element" repairs and it just shows that with a little time and a brain you can fix most anything. Always loved your style too, light hearted and entertaining. Nothing big to say here just a positive comment and hopefully it will put a smile on your face! Keep em coming Ronnie, enjoyed as always buddy! :)
I must say you make great and funny videos, keep them coming!
I'm very glad to see someone such as yourself who's into tube radio repair, who can take a video meant to be light hearted for what it is. A lot of the repair guys take themselves so seriously. Thank you for watching, I'll see you on the next one. I'm working on some brand new videos right now, these ones are previous ones I recorded awhile back. Right now I'm working on a little Sylvania AA5 set.
We radio repair hobby guys are all like Dr. Frankenstein; we love to bring the dead( radios in this case) back to life!
Its a signal generator that plays music people and what a beauty it is too 📻
I remember seeing a vintage late 1940's or early 50's art deco style slide lap guitar for playing Hawaiian or country music back in the day that had the same (extremely obscure) screw-on cord connector like those 3 screw-on contact coax input connectors on the old signal generator.
That's pretty wild, it must have been a common thing for a couple years and now we look at it and go what???
New t-shirt idea. Instead of 'It's broke' this channel will offer a 'It's tuned !' version or 'It's tuned people !' 👕
hahaha we'll have to think up a good t-shirt idea like that...
I got one just like. It seems to work. I also have an Operadio pa amplifier 1937 vintage.
Thank you for watching, Ray!
nothing wrong with the heathkit stuff, service grade equipment vs lab grade equipment to me and service grade for aligning/checking old radios is plenty. to couple it to your radio use a clip and get a length of wire make a small loop and hang it near the antenna. the capacitor is needed if you hook directly to the circuit. very entertaining content here!
Thank you! I've been watching the AA5 channel here on youtube and I like how he hangs the wire near it like you mentioned, I've used this little piece to align 5 or 6 radios now, works great for what I need! Heathkit is aok with me.
Love it when you stick it to the haters Ronnie
Sometimes they need it
@@AmateurRepairTime Yep even the ones that cry when offended
I gave up listening to my local stations here in my little area of Western Australia years ago. In the Bunbury WA area, I have access to Hit FM! (95.7 FM), Triple J (99.3 FM), Triple M SouthWest (936.0 AM), Spirit Radio (621 AM), and ABC SouthWest WA (684 AM), and they all suck (based on my likes). Unfortunately due to how radios work over here, they only transmit with just enough power to cover the areas they are licensed to cover.
On an extremely, EXTREMLY clear day, you can pick up 92.9FM (Triple M Perth), but only in certain areas of where I live.
So I listen to the radio via the Internet, my preference is for 96FM (Broadcasts out of Perth to the Perth and surrounds areas). I like the station because it plays music from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and some more modern ones from the 00s on occasions :)
It's always fascination watching your radio repair videos, and just seeing how far your stations can broadcast, even our AM ones aren't allowed to broadcast those kinds of distances, and Western Australia is huge compared to any other US state.
I wonder what the wattage is of those stations? Over here they let you be 50,000 watts but cap it at that.... with a really good radio you can pick stuff up all up and down the east coast so maybe 500 miles or more if the atmosphere is perfect for it.
@@AmateurRepairTime Googling, it looks like ABC Radio was upgraded to 50kW back in the '50s, not sure if they still run that power level (I can't even figure out how to Google it), but that doesn't surprise me, ABC is a government funded station (TV and Radio).
Triple J is an ABC Radio station too, but they tend to play more modern stuff compared to ABC Radio which sticks mostly to the oldies type stuff.
Looks like FM is usually around 1W but can be upwards of 5W.
Some basic Googling says that Triple M (Commercial AM station all around Australia) uses around 2kW in a lot of their locations, which suggests to me that ABC Radio might be the only one legally allowed to operate at such high power levels.
Turn the modulation pot up (audio in/out) then you will hear the signal from the sig gen as a tone from the radio
Verdigris.