Very very rare collection i hade never seened these type of radios and other audio equipment and plenty of collection very valuable electronic treasure in your home 📻💰💰☎
Lots of fun watching this video, Larry! As I'm getting older, I'm getting nostalgic for the radios I once had over the years. Thanks for sharing. I enjoy watching your videos. 73 de W4PKR Jim
Thanks for sharing your collection! lots and lots of great memories from seeing your gear. I too, started off in this hobby with a small transistor am radio given to me by my grandmother in the very early 70s, to listen to MLB games...great dx! I remember listening to those 50k watt clear channel stations late at night ( well after bedtime for a 9 year old, lol).
Wonderful! Had some of those CB radios myself back in the early 70's. Still display my Comstat 23 MK6 from 1970 on a shelf here along with a D104 mic. Great video look forward to more!
Well that was nice. I really enjoyed seeing your collection, along with nice commentary. I saw a few goodies there that brought back some nice memories of not just the hobby itself, but of some long passed folks who used some of what you showed. :)
Real nice collection. I remember those GE transistor 9 volt radios from the 60s and 70s. Remember the old Eveready batteries with the black cat jumping thru the 9 on them? I probably have one or 2 of them somewhere.
Really cool collection! My grandfather gave me a Philco radio just like that when I was about 10. Same case and all. I used to listen to Red Wings games on it at night when I was supposed to be sleeping. Thanks for sharing. Chris - W7BBQ
That is great. I had so much fun with that little transistor radio, listening to the top 40 stations and the big time DJ's back in the day, and then listening to as far away stations as I could hear with that radio. I got used to how signals were much better at night and wondered why, so I got my interest then and it just amazed me how it all worked. I listed to it most of the time when I went to bed and hid it under the pillow like you maybe did, lol. 73
Lots of great stuff! I like that you saved the 11 meter stuff. Most everyone tossed these a long time ago. I like your collection of AM transistors. My first one was a "Viscount" from the sixties. RW KC2RDU
Larry, You bypassed - I think - a real treasure in your collection: an Icom IC-22S. These were incredible 2M FM radios back in the late 70s and were the magic ticket for me into VHF/UHF ham radio. One of these and the venerable (and handsome) TR-7600 were the first two FM radios I owned. 73 magazine's numerous articles on how to enter additional channel/frequency capabilites were the incentive for me to open up and mod radios. Also, the fact that the old synthesizer board tended to fail (the stainless steel wire feedthroughs) allowed me to pick them up cheap at swapmeets and put them back on the air. At one point, I had eighten of these in various states of repair. If yours runs true to form, the synthesizer will have gone to PLL heaven. If so and you want some inside dope on restoring it, let me know. (K6WHP at ARRL, etc.) Like the DX-160 videos, I thoroughly enjoy all your work. Keep 'em coming! 73 de K6WHP Dit..dit.
+William Phinizy Thanks William and yes, I have a couple of those radios around here I guess. I used to use one for a crossband remote base to 10 meter FM at one time. I got mine at hamfests some years ago but have not powered them up in a long time now but I did also have one I gave to a new ham and he still uses it from time to time. My first 2 meter radio in 1977 was a Clegg FM-28A I think it was, one of the early synthesized radios and I still have it and it still works. Also I had a Kenwood 12 channel crystal semi-portable radio that was basically the same thing as the Drake at the time or they were the same size and same features anyhow. Thanks for the comments! 73
Awesome collection buddy. We are just starting out on our Ham journey but hope someday to have a selection like yours. Thanks for sharing. MI6 MXZ , 73's
And here my wife complains about my radio inventory lol! I have a few of those radios that you have sitting there. Like the Navaho TRC-433 base, what I think was a TRC-427 Realistic mobile, and not sure if I saw any Cobra 29LTD's in there but they're still fairly popular to this day. I have a vintage Regency scanner sitting here as well. Works just fine but does need some TLC. To add to your collection try to get a hold of a 2000GTL. They're highly coveted among collectors and a joy to own! I have one here given to me by a friend but it does need some TLC as well before it can be used. It's a nice looking radio though and I'm proud to be the owner of one.
Thanks, that was fun to make, I just used stiff wire to make that tower and bent the pieces into shape and soldered them together and painted it. It was not a real model or anything but I thought it was fun to do once I started it. 73
In this video you mentioned a banana mic around the 4:00 minute mark in the video picked one of these up at a pawnshop few weeks back thinking I could use it with a uniden pro 510xl Taiwan model 😀 I want to make sure before I "modify" it for use that the condition I am having is "normal" with this mic installed. Or being educated on how things were in the early days. Conditions normal with factory mic I press button the cb transmits when I let go it stops transmitting . With the banana mic installed and turned on the radio goes in to transmit mode when I press/slide the tx switch it stops transmitting... So simple thought and I haven't pulled it apart yet guess if it's not apart I have less chance to modify/fixing it haha.. It was modified to TX by default , the radio it was connected to for what ever reason required the mic to TX by default, this one is hard to even consider but some how the momentary on switch became a momentary off switch.... I see why you have bloopers in all of your videos lol....
I would like to have half of your nothing special. I thinkl I know your favorite CB. Everytime you said Johnson your voice raised a bit LOL. After taking the face of my johnson and sticking it on that guitar I think I miss it in it's original condition now.
You guess that correct! Probably since I used to work at EF Johnon, but it was after the CB boom. I had a lot of Realistic CB's I used also as you probably can tell. My dad used all EFJ though, CB then business band radios, so they were the first ones I became familiar with I guess.
Counted over 40 CB radio, handheld to mobil to base. being conservative 3.5 watt output x 40 you got over 120 watts 11 meter there. LOL . Need a way to "synchronize together, make one big TX'er, just to see if ya could. Cool vid.
I have a Lafayette 12 transistor, AM/SW radio that I got for Christmas in 1960/61. My Dad ordered it from my Lafayette electronic's catalog for the high price of $49.00. I remember he ordered it and paid $5.00 a month for it. would you have any idea what it may be worth? Oh it still works and I got the 110V power supply. Don't think I ever put any batteries in it. I use to listen to SW back in the early sixty's . Went in to the military in 65 and it has sat on the shelf since. Is there any where I could get any info about it? You have a nice collection of equipment.
Thank you very much. I guess off hand I don't know for sure what you might be able to get for it. I did a search on google and found several different models and also on ebay to see. If you can find a model number of some kind on it, I would put it into a google search, that is the same thing I would do here just to see if any info on it was out there. Wish I could help more. Sounds like a great radio if it still works!
+code lyoko 34 Yes, garage sales or ebay and that type of thing are good places to start. Under most conditions you will only hear signals out to around 25 miles or so, but sometimes there are good conditions where you can hear signals out to 200 miles or so, but not very common, just a few times a year usually. It is called tropospheric propagation.
+Radio Rob That was an old pocket scanner that was built into a desktop type housing with some added larger switches and controls on it, I didn't assemble it but got it at a hamfest or something many years ago. But it was just one of those boards out of a 4 channel crystal type hand held scanner from the 70's.
Oh ya, I know that kind of old scanner. They were expensive when they were new. The person that did it this probably wanted something easier to deal with as far as the controls go, and built in power supply I assume. Thanks for the info. I collect radios also, you can see some in my videos.
+Radio Rob Yes, I think that is what the guy wanted, mainly build in power supply I suppose. Was a good idea I guess. Sounds good, I will check out your videos there also. 73
I could watch that video every day. I love seeing older radio collections.
I really enjoy the old vintage radios thanks for sharing that
Damn Nice Collection..Very Enjoyable To Watch,,,Thanks Once Again Larry!!!! Greetings From Rick and Canada,,,
Thanks Rick, appreciate that and glad you enjoyed seeing the collection here. It is a lot of fun to have them around to look at and play around with!
Very nice stuff, Larry. Thanks for preserving them! 73 - Dave, NF0J
Very very rare collection i hade never seened these type of radios and other audio equipment and plenty of collection very valuable electronic treasure in your home 📻💰💰☎
I am glad to see that I'm not the only one that never gets rid of old radios.
Wow! I am blown away! The passion.🙏👏
Very beautiful display, thanks so much for sharing i really enjoyed seeing your collection and an explanation of what is what...
keep it up.
Awesome collection sir! Greetings from Brazil.
thank you for showing your awesome collection of radios!
+saturn5tony Glad you enjoyed that, thanks!
Lots of fun watching this video, Larry!
As I'm getting older, I'm getting nostalgic for the radios I once had over the years.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoy watching your videos.
73 de W4PKR
Jim
El Kabong Thanks, I know just what you mean, it is all a lot of fun though! Glad you enjoy and thanks for the comment! 73..Larry
Thanks for sharing your collection! lots and lots of great memories from seeing your gear. I too, started off in this hobby with a small transistor am radio given to me by my grandmother in the very early 70s, to listen to MLB games...great dx! I remember listening to those 50k watt clear channel stations late at night ( well after bedtime for a 9 year old, lol).
Thanks David, sure a lot of us that used to listen to those channels on our transistor radios in bed. It was a great time as a kid!
Nothing special but special to you. All great memories and that's what it is all about. Every radio tells a story.
Wonderful! Had some of those CB radios myself back in the early 70's. Still display my Comstat 23 MK6 from 1970 on a shelf here along with a D104 mic. Great video look forward to more!
Nice collection, very well presented, thanks for sharing.
Well that was nice. I really enjoyed seeing your collection, along with nice commentary. I saw a few goodies there that brought back some nice memories of not just the hobby itself, but of some long passed folks who used some of what you showed. :)
Great collection Larry!
Thanks for the tour! Nice collection.
A fascinating look at your radio collection - thanks for sharing.
tnx for sharing collection. Pretty interesting mix of radios.
Awsome!!! I just really love your old vintage Microphone at your left in the video.
Real nice collection. I remember those GE transistor 9 volt radios from the 60s and 70s. Remember the old Eveready batteries with the black cat jumping thru the 9 on them? I probably have one or 2 of them somewhere.
Really cool collection! My grandfather gave me a Philco radio just like that when I was about 10. Same case and all. I used to listen to Red Wings games on it at night when I was supposed to be sleeping. Thanks for sharing. Chris - W7BBQ
That is great. I had so much fun with that little transistor radio, listening to the top 40 stations and the big time DJ's back in the day, and then listening to as far away stations as I could hear with that radio. I got used to how signals were much better at night and wondered why, so I got my interest then and it just amazed me how it all worked. I listed to it most of the time when I went to bed and hid it under the pillow like you maybe did, lol. 73
Congratulations. Happy New year 2021
Thanks and Happy New Year to you also! 73
I like seeing ham operators that started in CB, and who aren't ashamed of it. Great collection, Im not far behind you.....lol
Excellent trip through time enjoyed it immensely.....
glad you are like me i love old radios old cars ect ect just got done restoring a zenith 5go3 clock radio got the clock working too
Wow. Very cool collection. I still have the same Cobra radar detector. That thing worked great many years ago. Thanks for posting.
Larry, thanks for the memories!
Great collection!
Lots of great stuff! I like that you saved the 11 meter stuff. Most everyone tossed these a long time ago. I like your collection of AM transistors. My first one was a "Viscount" from the sixties. RW KC2RDU
AMAZING STUFF!!! Congrats for your collection!
brings back memory's but very interesting and informative thx 73
Larry,
You bypassed - I think - a real treasure in your collection: an Icom IC-22S. These were incredible 2M FM radios back in the late 70s and were the magic ticket for me into VHF/UHF ham radio. One of these and the venerable (and handsome) TR-7600 were the first two FM radios I owned.
73 magazine's numerous articles on how to enter additional channel/frequency capabilites were the incentive for me to open up and mod radios. Also, the fact that the old synthesizer board tended to fail (the stainless steel wire feedthroughs) allowed me to pick them up cheap at swapmeets and put them back on the air. At one point, I had eighten of these in various states of repair.
If yours runs true to form, the synthesizer will have gone to PLL heaven. If so and you want some inside dope on restoring it, let me know. (K6WHP at ARRL, etc.)
Like the DX-160 videos, I thoroughly enjoy all your work. Keep 'em coming!
73 de K6WHP
Dit..dit.
+William Phinizy Thanks William and yes, I have a couple of those radios around here I guess. I used to use one for a crossband remote base to 10 meter FM at one time. I got mine at hamfests some years ago but have not powered them up in a long time now but I did also have one I gave to a new ham and he still uses it from time to time. My first 2 meter radio in 1977 was a Clegg FM-28A I think it was, one of the early synthesized radios and I still have it and it still works. Also I had a Kenwood 12 channel crystal semi-portable radio that was basically the same thing as the Drake at the time or they were the same size and same features anyhow. Thanks for the comments! 73
Nice collection Larry. You could get lost for days playing in there.
Gotta love the " fake ya out " radio drawer.
Carl
Thanks Carl, I just had to make that drawer fit in and not look like a drawer, haha.
That is a really impressive collection! Thank you for showing it to us.
73 Dave M0GGK
Awesome collection buddy. We are just starting out on our Ham journey but hope someday to have a selection like yours. Thanks for sharing. MI6 MXZ , 73's
Oh nice collection! Thanks for sharing it was really interesting.
Thanks Todd. It all adds up over the years, lol.
amazing collection larry ...
There's an antique radio/tv show every spring and fall in my area. It's free to attend and I always have my camera ready.
awesome collection there Sr.
thanks for sharing!!
much respect,KB3AUM
Thanks so much Dave!
Cool radio.🤗😄👍👍👌
Very nice. Memory lane for sure. 73 from AI4QT
Parabéns pelos vídeos!
Great collection my friend
And here my wife complains about my radio inventory lol!
I have a few of those radios that you have sitting there. Like the Navaho TRC-433 base, what I think was a TRC-427 Realistic mobile, and not sure if I saw any Cobra 29LTD's in there but they're still fairly popular to this day. I have a vintage Regency scanner sitting here as well. Works just fine but does need some TLC.
To add to your collection try to get a hold of a 2000GTL. They're highly coveted among collectors and a joy to own! I have one here given to me by a friend but it does need some TLC as well before it can be used. It's a nice looking radio though and I'm proud to be the owner of one.
Love the wsm model tower and the citifone cb radio .
Thanks, that was fun to make, I just used stiff wire to make that tower and bent the pieces into shape and soldered them together and painted it. It was not a real model or anything but I thought it was fun to do once I started it. 73
That's a grand collection of devices Larry, there's a lot of history in there too. I think the older radios make a far better audio output.
i love the cb radios
all COOL! Ya you Bet'cha.
In this video you mentioned a banana mic around the 4:00 minute mark in the video picked one of these up at a pawnshop few weeks back thinking I could use it with a uniden pro 510xl Taiwan model 😀
I want to make sure before I "modify" it for use that the condition I am having is "normal" with this mic installed. Or being educated on how things were in the early days.
Conditions normal with factory mic I press button the cb transmits when I let go it stops transmitting . With the banana mic installed and turned on the radio goes in to transmit mode when I press/slide the tx switch it stops transmitting...
So simple thought and I haven't pulled it apart yet guess if it's not apart I have less chance to modify/fixing it haha..
It was modified to TX by default , the radio it was connected to for what ever reason required the mic to TX by default, this one is hard to even consider but some how the momentary on switch became a momentary off switch....
I see why you have bloopers in all of your videos lol....
I would like to have half of your nothing special. I thinkl I know your favorite CB. Everytime you said Johnson your voice raised a bit LOL. After taking the face of my johnson and sticking it on that guitar I think I miss it in it's original condition now.
You guess that correct! Probably since I used to work at EF Johnon, but it was after the CB boom. I had a lot of Realistic CB's I used also as you probably can tell. My dad used all EFJ though, CB then business band radios, so they were the first ones I became familiar with I guess.
Nice Collection
Counted over 40 CB radio, handheld to mobil to base. being conservative 3.5 watt output x 40 you got over 120 watts 11 meter there. LOL . Need a way to "synchronize together, make one big TX'er, just to see if ya could. Cool vid.
Thanks, yes, sure would be a lot of power there if sync'd up, ha!
LOL! That gets a thumbs up from me, I was thinking the same thing.
A++++ VIDEO
Lots of good old toys for sure - got a big kick out of this vid!
Bag phone was from the late 70s early 80s but I didn't see a Brick phone from the 1980s in your collection.
I have a Lafayette 12 transistor, AM/SW radio that I got for Christmas in 1960/61. My Dad ordered it from my Lafayette electronic's catalog for the high price of $49.00. I remember he ordered it and paid $5.00 a month for it. would you have any idea what it may be worth? Oh it still works and I got the 110V power supply. Don't think I ever put any batteries in it.
I use to listen to SW back in the early sixty's . Went in to the military in 65 and it has sat on the shelf since. Is there any where I could get any info about it? You have a nice collection of equipment.
Thank you very much. I guess off hand I don't know for sure what you might be able to get for it. I did a search on google and found several different models and also on ebay to see. If you can find a model number of some kind on it, I would put it into a google search, that is the same thing I would do here just to see if any info on it was out there. Wish I could help more. Sounds like a great radio if it still works!
Hey mate, do you have propagation map for the band of 11 meters
as well? If yes, could you give me the link? 73s
I only have one radio a Bc345crs, but where can I find more? Like at garage sales or goodwill or build my own?
In fact is it possible to receive a signal from 200 miles away from a scanner like the BC345CRS?
+code lyoko 34 Yes, garage sales or ebay and that type of thing are good places to start. Under most conditions you will only hear signals out to around 25 miles or so, but sometimes there are good conditions where you can hear signals out to 200 miles or so, but not very common, just a few times a year usually. It is called tropospheric propagation.
You look like that Actor!
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A homemade scanner? Cool. Please tell me more. KJ6JJK
+Radio Rob That was an old pocket scanner that was built into a desktop type housing with some added larger switches and controls on it, I didn't assemble it but got it at a hamfest or something many years ago. But it was just one of those boards out of a 4 channel crystal type hand held scanner from the 70's.
Oh ya, I know that kind of old scanner. They were expensive when they were new. The person that did it this probably wanted something easier to deal with as far as the controls go, and built in power supply I assume. Thanks for the info. I collect radios also, you can see some in my videos.
+Radio Rob Yes, I think that is what the guy wanted, mainly build in power supply I suppose. Was a good idea I guess. Sounds good, I will check out your videos there also. 73
Memories, KB??I