Restoration of a 1946/47 Zenith Trans-oceanic radio

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025

Комментарии • 23

  • @cmgray74
    @cmgray74 4 месяца назад

    A Great Video thanks so much for taking the time and effort to publish. I just picked up this exact same model at a our local HAM Fest this past weekend. The plan to re-Cap is already in the works. The case is in wonderful shape for its age. This should be a wonderful radio when we (step dad and I) are through with the project. Thanks Again!

  • @peterkazakoff5412
    @peterkazakoff5412 Год назад

    Interesting and informative video.
    Fascinating that after all those years, still functions so well.

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place your utube videos are awesome 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place your zenith Trans oceanic shortwave is awesome 🎉🎉🎉

  • @troytaylor1913
    @troytaylor1913 8 месяцев назад

    I was given one of these with no damage or missing parts and it's untouched. It was working they say. I don't like working on this type of assembly but I got to do it. I have a National shortwave I have to do too. I'm just spoiled from working on printed circuit boards.

    • @troytaylor1913
      @troytaylor1913 8 месяцев назад

      I got to hook a digital frequency meter to the RF generator it is an old Heathkit tube RF generator but it still works great.

    • @FranksPlace-jk7pj
      @FranksPlace-jk7pj  8 месяцев назад

      Good luck.

  • @Diesel735
    @Diesel735 Год назад

    Very Interesting !

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place my hobbies are painting pictures 🖼 and listening to shortwave and ssb I have 5 shortwave receivers iam thinking about getting my ham license 🎉🎉

  • @nikolabondzic8022
    @nikolabondzic8022 4 месяца назад

    Please more light to see everything.

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place iam going to san Diego CALIFORNIA in October 2023 19-23 for five days with my cousin and his wife we are flying there 🎉🎉

  • @tubeDude48
    @tubeDude48 Год назад

    Also see: *Jim Burns*

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place ware can you get germanium transistor 😮

    • @FranksPlace-jk7pj
      @FranksPlace-jk7pj  Год назад

      You could try ebay. There you will find everything from pulls from old equipment to new old stock Russian ones. If you want to spend money you can buy new ones but they're prohibitively expensive.

  • @FinnHansen-bs4jz
    @FinnHansen-bs4jz Год назад

  • @Will_14_years_ago
    @Will_14_years_ago Месяц назад

    Wish I could send you my g500. It turns on and I only have noise from the speaker when I fiddle with the headphones jack.

    • @FranksPlace-jk7pj
      @FranksPlace-jk7pj  Месяц назад +1

      If you have a schematic of the radio, you will notice that one side of the signal path from the output of the audio transformer goes through the headphone jack. Over time these contacts have become oxidized and will no longer allow the signal to go to the speaker. When you said that you had sound coming out of the speaker, that was the clincher, I had the same problem. Get a can of contact cleaner and spray the contacts of the headphone jack and re-solder the connections to the jack, as they can become corroded also. If you have a set of headphones with that size of jack, work the jack by plugging in the headphones in and out many times once you've sprayed it with de-oxit or another contact cleaner, that will help clean the contacts. If that doesn't fix the problem, just bypass the headphone jack altogether as you will probably never use headphones. Hope these suggestions help.

    • @FranksPlace-jk7pj
      @FranksPlace-jk7pj  Месяц назад

      Here is a link to where you can download the schematic: www.radiomuseum.org/r/zenith_transoceanic_g500_ch5g40.html

  • @Greg-et2dp
    @Greg-et2dp Год назад

    Frank's place i have a zenith Trans oceanic no tubs battery operated it was my uncles he is ded it needs work on it🎉🎉🎉

  • @nikolabondzic8022
    @nikolabondzic8022 23 дня назад

    Your screw driver creating shedow, can't see

  • @donalddesnoo5303
    @donalddesnoo5303 Год назад

    The 1l6 80$ can be subbed w 1r5 not as good 5$. 1l6 fail easily weak On hf but easily avail. Cheap i never use the ham bands anyway