the quality of AM broadcast in the US seems better than here in the UK. our AM band is pretty sparse here now mostly talk stations and really poor quality
Those Japanese sets from that era are great, good components, the chassis plating was so much better than US stuff. I have never had to do an alignment on them. I really liked the look, so much different than US stuff.
Everything about them was good, but the boxy, tinny sound. This one actually had better bass than most of the ones I've heard, but the high frequencies sound a little distorted.
I remember back in the day when the Japanese flooded the market with electronic and were not up to Americans standereds! Now compared to the crap from china! made in Japan is golden!!
The unlabeled SPDT switch right off the mains could be a ganged sw that lights up either AM / FM. That's what Lloyd whispered in my ear shortly before he passed. Nice radio, actually.
0:16 Yea, it looks like the grille of an old Datsun. Extra-wide cabinet for extra-wide, full-dimensional, mono separation for your ecstatic listening pleasure .
I found an AGS version probably 15 years ago. It's stored away in a shed. I looked at it yesterday thinking "I really like this radio, gonna do something with it". I see the thumbnail. Wtf. A sign of some sort.
That radio works quite quite good considering it has been out of service for several decades. The radio looks like a variation of a Rincan KFA-W71, who was likely the actual manufacturer. At time 11:48 in the video (schematic of the FM front end), the upper left 12 DT8 looks like the RF amplifier, upper right 12DT8 the mixer, lower left 12DT8, the AFC local oscillator frequency steering circuit, and the lower right, the Local Oscillator. I had a slightly lesser model of this radio (Rincan version) when I was about 7 years old. My home had concrete floors and I discovered the hard way that the chassis was hot and the chassis mounting screws protruded out the bottom of the cabinet. Touching the screws and floor simultaneously really lit me up. Of course, being an incurable techno-geek, I was always getting shocked anyway. One of the quality problems Japan was noted for was poor quality plastics. This radio was no exception: the plastic cabinet over the 50C5 sagged downward due to the heat given off from the tube.
A toddler in a plastic bag? That is so unsanitary. Think of the person who gets that plastic bag, with all the drool and bacteria in it! I'm triggered af right now.
This radio makes me think of one of those 60's Japanese Mitsubishi branded tube radios. Interesting how space-age design found its way into tube equipment as well. Good video, as always
With the 50C5 tube the filaments add up to 122 volts, or with the 35C5 they add up to 107 volts, so you can use either, depending on which is closer to the line voltage in your area. (Japan uses 100 volts.)
@@qwertykeyboard5901 in that aspect they are a few decades behind. Germany had a few different line voltages up until the 50s. I think it was 220, 240, 110 and even 130VDC in some areas, frequency was also different
Yes wasn't the Ark of the Covenant layers of gold and layers of Acacia wood forming a capacitor...............Uzzah reached out to grab the Ark and got zapped!. Uzzah arced to the Ark! Ha! 2 Samuel 6:1-7
Supposedly, the contents of the Ark were the 10 commandments on stone tablets, a bowl of manna, and Moses' bones. No paper, foil, and electrolytic goo, or polychlorinated biphenols.
To each his own, but it certainly doesn't appeal to my tastes. I think it will eventually end up like disco, which finally disappeared from the airwaves in the early-80's.
I just found your channel. I love it. I was always interested in electronics as a kid. I used to fool around with speakers and things. I am a subscriber now. thank you.
One of the tubes seen at 3:48 is a Rincan. I have seen a version of this wide two speaker radio with the same OFF-HI-MED-LOW power / tone switch with the RINCAN name on it.
I believe they show 50C5 and 35C5 as interchangeable to allow the radio to be used in either Japan or the USA. In Japan, the line voltage was 100 volts. I don't remember if they changed that recently but I'm pretty sure that would have been the case when this radio was made. A 35C5 would make the normal running voltage 107 volts versus 122 volts with the 50C5 if we take the voltage ratings literally. Of course this doesn't matter in practice too much. A 35C5 would have a shorter life if this radio was used in the USA but not with a 50C5 due to the difference in current draw on the filaments.
Frequency response to 5 kHz instead of 4.5 kHz. Doesn't seem that much of a difference, but this radio sounds incredible on AM. Almost the same as it does on FM, and there aren't many radios which could make that claim.
It’s not that great in the US, especially with modern radios. He’s near Los Angeles, so it sounds better than most cities. A tube radio made for AM helps immensely, too.
We had the same as this radio in our institution' wardroom in 1980..I came every evening setting next to it & enjoying the clear fine fidility radio at that time.
I would love a video about silver mica disease, I think I'm starting to understand it after seeing your CBS 5 radio repair but a bit of explanation would be really great.
Hey Shango good morning another great video brought to you by z tango keep the videos coming you have a great day my friend take care PS believe this that's not Lloyd's of London made in jaypan very nice radio though
Lloyd’s made good house stereos and speakers in the old days. I had speakers off of my dads old Lloyd’s stereo and they sounded great. They were dual tweeter and a small woofer
Silver mica disease is a build up of conductable material in the capacitor of an IF-Can it kinda acts like a domino affect. As the IF-can builds up carbon it starts to arc and short out the more it makes carbon the faster it makes even more carbon in the can until it no longer works. With radios like this one share IF-Cans between Am and FM and those don't have issues it's the ones that have just 2x 455 KC IF-cans. They burn up usually the 1st one.
Meguro capacitors? I may have happened upon the name before, upon taking radios 📻 apart. AM and FM 📻 have two separate dials on this. I bet it also has two dial cords. That can be very hard and frustrating to fix, if two dial cord systems are combined. FANTASTIC dial cord pulley, and tuning gangs. At least, the company had to equip this with dial lights 💡. It even looks like 👍 that radio’s 📻 tube type. This must be a 1960’s. Lloyd’s has gone downhill since then. I received my first Lloyd’s, all plastic home 🏠 stereo in 1984, from Costco, for $59.99. It had dual cassette decks 🆙 front, a record player, and AM/FM radio 📻. This set also had veneered, particleboard speakers 🔊 . Probably not a far cry 😢 from the modern 1988 Crosley of any sort. It did me fine, until I broke a recording arm in it for the cassette deck . He charged me $59.99 to install a recording arm, but it didn’t record tapes anyway. Everything still worked, all ya couldn’t do is record tapes. I sure wouldn’t twist the dials back and forth like 👍 that. I’d be afraid 😱 of putting that much more wear on the potentiometers Your friend, Jeff.
I always thought these things looked like an alien spacecraft. I think there is a similar version that is AM and shortwave, but I don't know if that was also made by Lloyds.
space and USAAF programs in 50s & 60s became popular in consumer designs,,the studebaker with a bullet nose and curved split windshield like fighter cockpits,radio designs in early 60s,,airliner design,slick smooth lines,, marketing thx to all the NYC adboys
That's one cool radio. Definitely has that automotive 60's look to it where the speakers can be the "air vents". It would have been cool if it had a phono input that could play whatever was connected to it in stereo.
Fun job “re-surrounding” speakers, using homemade speaker service turntable made from a Lazy Susan base/bearing set (& x-over rebuilds) .. have done several including vintage Cerwins, Optimus, etc .. the RS/Realistic/Optimus T-300 speakers are quite good - curb find …
Nice refoam job making due with what you got. I had a fun time doing a sub for my brother, the seller wadded the foam up which took he'll to flatten again. And to top it off my brother burned the coil up a few days later... So it was wasted effort.
That's nice I just got a radio with a similar chassis an XFA-707 Macy's radio which works and sounds great. Problem is that the case is ugly and missing knobs. I made the mistake in messing with the dial cord and now gotta fix the cord and reattach to the pointer. Came with a Zenith for 10 bucks which is why I bought them.
I have a Lloyd's table radio that uses almost the exact same circuit, the only differences being that mine has only a single speaker and no tone control. Be careful with the capacitor across the power supply rectifier. In my radio, it had a brand name like "oil con." It turned out that this was an oil-impregnated paper capacitor, and it short-circuited! Fortunately, the designers included a fuse in my radio, so damage was averted. The four stages in the FM tuner schematic are, starting at top left and going clockwise: grounded grid RF amplifier, mixer, local oscillator, and reactance tube AFC. I am surprised that this relatively simple front end works so well.
19:40 I like it better in the medium "muffled" position; the highs that were exposed by cutting that capacitor were fairly distorted. I'd have shorted the power connections and put a switch on the line cord.
I just got through messing with a dial cord like that, it's not that hard to work with. I first marked on each side of the cord holder, on the string/cord with a red marker so I'd know where to clamp the cord down again. You can loosen the screw enough to pop the string out from the clamp, or go ahead and loosen it all the way. When putting it back together, I found it was easier to barely start the screw in the clamp first, then drop the chassis back in, line it up where you marked it's position then tuck the cord underneath using something like a flat-screwdriver then tighten clamp. I just started getting into these old radios, don't know much yet but this worked for me.
at Least back then the government tried to comfort the public by having those symbols on radios, even tho the chance of having any radio on the air, or working radios to receive anything was slim to none after a massive strike!
That is "Gas Pedal" by Sage the Gemini from six years ago, it peaked at #29 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Hip Hop Chart. Sage the Gemini is from the Bay area. And now, back to the countdown...
"Deader than a toddler in a plastic bag factory"! 👶🏻A gift from above, first tested tube had an open filament!🎰 Radio is as old as me but still sounds good! Darn Japanese engineers were way ahead of the game back then! 🗾Good save on those speakers.🔊
Might want to let Saul know that his AM is not getting both channels. That's actually more common. There's a slew of AMs here with translators that feed only one channel of audio to the AM transmitter. I've told all of them, but it falls on deaf ears. Odd considering that Saul spent some money on getting a rather nice audio processor for it.
@@shango066 Send a message in Facebook and tell them about it. Perhaps, they send it to Saul. They are pretty responsive. Saul does try to run the best facilities in the market. I'd bet he'll like to see this video.
We had a repeater on channel 6. It inspired an older lady I knew to get a TV to FM converter so she could listen to her soap operas while she ran her errands. Have you ever seen one? I installed it her Buick.
In NYC, “Hot 97” and “Power 105” both have “Mumble Rap”. Back in the 1980’s “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang was the first “Mumble Rap” to popularize the genre.
Very cool set that definitely has a Sixties automotive look about it. I was wondering what the extra markings were, so thanks for explaining about the failed attempt to organise radio into 'channels'. In the UK (where I am) we don't have callsigns so stations just tend to identify themselves by name and frequency. The BBC stations are identified by number (Radio 1 through Radio 5, and then 6 is a digital / online station). You're lucky in LA to have such a range of AM and FM stations - over here, most of them are as you put it 'syndicated crap'. Most of our local stations are now Heart or Capital which play MOR adult contemporary and Top 40 respectively. AM is predominantly talk (mostly sports, in which I've no interest) and we lost our last decent AM oldies station some years back when Gold abandoned AM transmissions. Boston (where I have family) is much better, with a really good selection of formats. Real pity that this thing isn't stereo. Did you find out what the neon lamps do? I thought dial illumination but that's a *big* dial and would surely need more bulbs, and probably incandescents at that. AM / FM indicator maybe?
@@mohinderkaur6671 Ohhh yes, because they don't have a ridiculous amount of heat dissipated in a dropping resistor for the filaments, my bad! And I suppose if you wanted more power you could just get an output transformer with a lower primary side impedance, although you'd need an output valve which could handle that amount of current.
Shango, you are the CPR Tech for all radios! You bring any radio back to life. Awesome! Keep the resuscitations going!
The AM on that receiver sounds *excellent!* No hum, no buzz, etc.
the quality of AM broadcast in the US seems better than here in the UK. our AM band is pretty sparse here now mostly talk stations and really poor quality
@@michaelmcdonald2348 definitely depends on where in the US you are listening.
@@michaelmcdonald2348 All mostly talk here about politics, religiion as well and no music. FM is the only stations that have music now.
Gotta love the amount of detail in that hand drawn schematic on the bottom.
Those Japanese sets from that era are great, good components, the chassis plating was so much better than US stuff. I have never had to do an alignment on them. I really liked the look, so much different than US stuff.
Everything about them was good, but the boxy, tinny sound. This one actually had better bass than most of the ones I've heard, but the high frequencies sound a little distorted.
I remember back in the day when the Japanese flooded the market with electronic and were not up to Americans standereds! Now compared to the crap from china! made in Japan is golden!!
The unlabeled SPDT switch right off the mains could be a ganged sw that lights up either AM / FM. That's what Lloyd whispered in my ear shortly before he passed. Nice radio, actually.
0:16 Yea, it looks like the grille of an old Datsun. Extra-wide cabinet for extra-wide, full-dimensional, mono separation for your ecstatic listening pleasure .
I'm always amazed at how much music is still on AM in LA. In my neck of the woods, AM has been taken over by talk crap stations.
It does have the speedometer look from an old american car.
The inside looks untouched and clean, amazing for its age.
I found an AGS version probably 15 years ago. It's stored away in a shed. I looked at it yesterday thinking "I really like this radio, gonna do something with it".
I see the thumbnail. Wtf. A sign of some sort.
That radio works quite quite good considering it has been out of service for several decades.
The radio looks like a variation of a Rincan KFA-W71, who was likely the actual manufacturer.
At time 11:48 in the video (schematic of the FM front end), the upper left 12 DT8 looks like the RF amplifier, upper right 12DT8 the mixer, lower left 12DT8, the AFC local oscillator frequency steering circuit, and the lower right, the Local Oscillator.
I had a slightly lesser model of this radio (Rincan version) when I was about 7 years old. My home had concrete floors and I discovered the hard way that the chassis was hot and the chassis mounting screws protruded out the bottom of the cabinet. Touching the screws and floor simultaneously really lit me up. Of course, being an incurable techno-geek, I was always getting shocked anyway.
One of the quality problems Japan was noted for was poor quality plastics. This radio was no exception: the plastic cabinet over the 50C5 sagged downward due to the heat given off from the tube.
17:22 Yeah, sometimes "inferior" outperforms "superior" in the long run.
Not all made in Japan radios were junk then but alot of it was 😂
"Deader than a toddler in a plastic bag factory". Priceless
I guffawed so violently upon hearing that instant classic, that I just about spewed out my breakfast oatmeal across the room.
Dark as fuck. Love it.
“Dead as a toddler in a hot car” was another of his comments in an older video!
I guess the "Political Correctness Filter" missed this great opportunity to make a funny joke into instant mayhem.
A toddler in a plastic bag? That is so unsanitary. Think of the person who gets that plastic bag, with all the drool and bacteria in it! I'm triggered af right now.
This radio makes me think of one of those 60's Japanese Mitsubishi branded tube radios. Interesting how space-age design found its way into tube equipment as well. Good video, as always
With the 50C5 tube the filaments add up to 122 volts, or with the 35C5 they add up to 107 volts, so you can use either, depending on which is closer to the line voltage in your area. (Japan uses 100 volts.)
Japan’s power grid setup is genuinely ridiculous. The damn place is split between 50 and 60hz.
Like. wtf guys?
@@qwertykeyboard5901 in that aspect they are a few decades behind.
Germany had a few different line voltages up until the 50s. I think it was 220, 240, 110 and even 130VDC in some areas, frequency was also different
That is serious W I D E sounding AM on that set. Not sure how I didn't notice that the first time I listened to it. Very nice!
From back when LLoyds was not another word for garbage...
Thanks for the update.
There are several references in the Old Testament to electrolytic capacitors being filled with sin and wrong-doings...........
Yes wasn't the Ark of the Covenant layers of gold and layers of Acacia wood forming a capacitor...............Uzzah reached out to grab the Ark and got zapped!. Uzzah arced to the Ark! Ha! 2 Samuel 6:1-7
Supposedly, the contents of the Ark were the 10 commandments on stone tablets, a bowl of manna, and Moses' bones. No paper, foil, and electrolytic goo, or polychlorinated biphenols.
molson12oz wrong ark dumb azz.
I love the look of this radio. Reminds me of the dash of a Toyota of that era.
I like the way you treat each faulty object like a logical sandbox. You are like the Aristotle of electronic troubleshooting!
I bought one of these radio's at a local drug store and it was the best t
Table radio i ever owned, the fidelity was great.
35c5 maybe for the japanese market where the line is 100v
4:53 im dying 😂 I have been watching your backlog of content for like a week and a half.
I find you very easy to listen to and entertaining, thanks.
"Low IQ hip hop mumble rap."
Sums it up nicely.
Finely the PC weirdos are losing the battle! and hearing funny jokes again!
Isn't most hip hop/rap pretty well targeted towards those with a room temperature I.Q?
To each his own, but it certainly doesn't appeal to my tastes. I think it will eventually end up like disco, which finally disappeared from the airwaves in the early-80's.
I just found your channel. I love it. I was always interested in electronics as a kid. I used to fool around with speakers and things. I am a subscriber now. thank you.
One of the tubes seen at 3:48 is a Rincan.
I have seen a version of this wide two speaker radio with the same OFF-HI-MED-LOW power / tone switch with the RINCAN name on it.
Rincan model KFA-W71. It's a generic model sold under many different brands. Rincan Radio was based out of Tokyo.
XFA-707 is what I have ugly case though.
That's a beautiful radio! Who else is enjoying just listening to this awesome radio with this dude?
Sage advice “you always got to wiggle your tubes first” 👍👍👍👍👍
I believe they show 50C5 and 35C5 as interchangeable to allow the radio to be used in either Japan or the USA. In Japan, the line voltage was 100 volts. I don't remember if they changed that recently but I'm pretty sure that would have been the case when this radio was made. A 35C5 would make the normal running voltage 107 volts versus 122 volts with the 50C5 if we take the voltage ratings literally. Of course this doesn't matter in practice too much. A 35C5 would have a shorter life if this radio was used in the USA but not with a 50C5 due to the difference in current draw on the filaments.
Actually 110.6v with 35c5, 125.6v with 50c5
As far as I know Japan still is on 100v. Interestingly, half of the country is 50hz and half is 60hz, so all equipment must be made to work on both.
The sound quality of AM transmission there seems a lot better than here in the UK.
10 kHz channel spacing vs. 9 kHz in other parts of the world.
@@LakeNipissing It certainly makes a difference
Frequency response to 5 kHz instead of 4.5 kHz. Doesn't seem that much of a difference, but this radio sounds incredible on AM. Almost the same as it does on FM, and there aren't many radios which could make that claim.
@@LakeNipissing Yes, I had to look hard to see what band it was on towards the end of the video.
It’s not that great in the US, especially with modern radios. He’s near Los Angeles, so it sounds better than most cities. A tube radio made for AM helps immensely, too.
I like my vintage tube radios with stereo seems u just cant beat the sound😀
Spent two weeks in lA in '88 was amazed at the choice of radio stations, there's sod all choice in the UK over 30 years later
We had the same as this radio in our institution' wardroom in 1980..I came every evening setting next to it & enjoying the clear fine fidility radio at that time.
I would love a video about silver mica disease, I think I'm starting to understand it after seeing your CBS 5 radio repair but a bit of explanation would be really great.
Better yet, K-SURF 1260 should be in AM Stereo!!
Love the video , we don't get cool radios like these to often in the UK now, i used to own several when i lived in canada.
Thats a NICE set wow real nice ! Jetsons look almost the futuristic radio !
Watching this over a year later - this is a great little radio - really like it.
'Higher the Dial, Lower the IQ'. Understandable Reasoning.
One can learn So Much in Just a Monday moment with *joe cool shango & super fly.*
Makes sense to me.
Hey Shango good morning another great video brought to you by z tango keep the videos coming you have a great day my friend take care PS believe this that's not Lloyd's of London made in jaypan very nice radio though
Lloyd’s made good house stereos and speakers in the old days. I had speakers off of my dads old Lloyd’s stereo and they sounded great. They were dual tweeter and a small woofer
Silver mica disease is a build up of conductable material in the capacitor of an IF-Can it kinda acts like a domino affect. As the IF-can builds up carbon it starts to arc and short out the more it makes carbon the faster it makes even more carbon in the can until it no longer works. With radios like this one share IF-Cans between Am and FM and those don't have issues it's the ones that have just 2x 455 KC IF-cans. They burn up usually the 1st one.
Very clean. Very well taken care of. Either that or not used much.
Last year I refoamed a pair of Cerwin Vega AT-12's from 1989 and they are good as new. Foam kit was perfect and no shims were required.
Same.
Very nice radio, definitely worth purchasing a new tube!
"5:05....plastic bag factory" Man, that's DARK! LoL
Love the rudimentary way of testing the set. Who needs variacs and isolation transformers
Meguro capacitors? I may have happened upon the name before, upon taking radios 📻 apart. AM and FM 📻 have two separate dials on this. I bet it also has two dial cords. That can be very hard and frustrating to fix, if two dial cord systems are combined. FANTASTIC dial cord pulley, and tuning gangs. At least, the company had to equip this with dial lights 💡. It even looks like 👍 that radio’s 📻 tube type. This must be a 1960’s. Lloyd’s has gone downhill since then. I received my first Lloyd’s, all plastic home 🏠 stereo in 1984, from Costco, for $59.99. It had dual cassette decks 🆙 front, a record player, and AM/FM radio 📻. This set also had veneered, particleboard speakers 🔊 . Probably not a far cry 😢 from the modern 1988 Crosley of any sort. It did me fine, until I broke a recording arm in it for the cassette deck . He charged me $59.99 to install a recording arm, but it didn’t record tapes anyway. Everything still worked, all ya couldn’t do is record tapes. I sure wouldn’t twist the dials back and forth like 👍 that. I’d be afraid 😱 of putting that much more wear on the potentiometers Your friend, Jeff.
Bob Dobush has new 12DT8's listed at $4.00 on his web site.
I always thought these things looked like an alien spacecraft. I think there is a similar version that is AM and shortwave, but I don't know if that was also made by Lloyds.
space and USAAF programs in 50s & 60s became popular in consumer designs,,the studebaker with a bullet nose and curved split windshield like fighter cockpits,radio designs in early 60s,,airliner design,slick smooth lines,, marketing thx to all the NYC adboys
Awesome ! That is a cool set thanks for sharing !
That's a cool radio for sure! Looks like JVC radios I have seen from same time period.
That's one cool radio. Definitely has that automotive 60's look to it where the speakers can be the "air vents". It would have been cool if it had a phono input that could play whatever was connected to it in stereo.
Condition is really good considering the age. Cool project.
Fun job “re-surrounding” speakers, using homemade speaker service turntable made from a Lazy Susan base/bearing set (& x-over rebuilds) .. have done several including vintage Cerwins, Optimus, etc .. the RS/Realistic/Optimus T-300 speakers are quite good - curb find …
Nice refoam job making due with what you got. I had a fun time doing a sub for my brother, the seller wadded the foam up which took he'll to flatten again. And to top it off my brother burned the coil up a few days later... So it was wasted effort.
Enjoyed the speaker refoam segment.
Thanks for sparing me the safety lesson
Another excellent video.
Thanks !
That's nice I just got a radio with a similar chassis an XFA-707 Macy's radio which works and sounds great. Problem is that the case is ugly and missing knobs. I made the mistake in messing with the dial cord and now gotta fix the cord and reattach to the pointer. Came with a Zenith for 10 bucks which is why I bought them.
I have a Lloyd's table radio that uses almost the exact same circuit, the only differences being that mine has only a single speaker and no tone control. Be careful with the capacitor across the power supply rectifier. In my radio, it had a brand name like "oil con." It turned out that this was an oil-impregnated paper capacitor, and it short-circuited! Fortunately, the designers included a fuse in my radio, so damage was averted.
The four stages in the FM tuner schematic are, starting at top left and going clockwise: grounded grid RF amplifier, mixer, local oscillator, and reactance tube AFC. I am surprised that this relatively simple front end works so well.
As awsome as always, thanks for sharing.
“ You always have to wiggle your tubes first “. That’s what she said !
I have a set very similar to that same brand slightly smaller I like using it it’s loud and sounds good and always works
19:40 I like it better in the medium "muffled" position; the highs that were exposed by cutting that capacitor were fairly distorted. I'd have shorted the power connections and put a switch on the line cord.
The radio scene in LA blows NYC away.
Cool thing about the refoam kit. I had doubts about trying to refoam without the shims.
An antiquated Japanese made radio. It even has the markings on the AM scale for CONELRAD.
That radio is awesome!
I just got through messing with a dial cord like that, it's not that hard to work with. I first marked on each side of the cord holder, on the string/cord with a red marker so I'd know where to clamp the cord down again. You can loosen the screw enough to pop the string out from the clamp, or go ahead and loosen it all the way. When putting it back together, I found it was easier to barely start the screw in the clamp first, then drop the chassis back in, line it up where you marked it's position then tuck the cord underneath using something like a flat-screwdriver then tighten clamp. I just started getting into these old radios, don't know much yet but this worked for me.
Vintage all right, You can see the civil defense triangles on it.
Those triangles could have come in handy. The Soviets might have attacked *at any moment!*
at Least back then the government tried to comfort the public by having those symbols on radios, even tho the chance of having any radio on the air, or working radios to receive anything was slim to none after a massive strike!
Conelrad
30:52 . . . The song on KRRL 92.3 made me start laughing. Your imitation at 31:11 made me laugh even more!!
Seriously, 31:11 is fantastic. I keep playing it over and over, and I am in pain from laughing so hard. Shango is awesome!!
That is "Gas Pedal" by Sage the Gemini from six years ago, it peaked at #29 on the Hot 100 and #6 on the Hip Hop Chart. Sage the Gemini is from the Bay area. And now, back to the countdown...
This thing looks freaking awesome
"Deader than a toddler in a plastic bag factory"! 👶🏻A gift from above, first tested tube had an open filament!🎰 Radio is as old as me but still sounds good!
Darn Japanese engineers were way ahead of the game back then! 🗾Good save on those speakers.🔊
Quite a beautiful radio, looks like a dashboard of some muscle car from the 60's!
Might want to let Saul know that his AM is not getting both channels. That's actually more common. There's a slew of AMs here with translators that feed only one channel of audio to the AM transmitter. I've told all of them, but it falls on deaf ears. Odd considering that Saul spent some money on getting a rather nice audio processor for it.
I messaged them a little while ago. They know there's a problem and hope to have it fixed tomorrow.
I was trying to track him down and send him the clip, i bet he would dig seeing it on the old radio
@@shango066 Send a message in Facebook and tell them about it. Perhaps, they send it to Saul. They are pretty responsive. Saul does try to run the best facilities in the market. I'd bet he'll like to see this video.
Now that is a sweet radio, bet it sounds great
I sure wish our Detroit area had even 1/2 the great radio stations that you have there in the L.A. market!
I think WLLZ went back on the air but yeah man, I moved out of there two years ago and radio fuckin sucked.
We had a repeater on channel 6. It inspired an older lady I knew to get a TV to FM converter so she could listen to her soap operas while she ran her errands. Have you ever seen one? I installed it her Buick.
What a nice radio!
Does the fly come with it?
Radio sounds great and is very sensitive even with weak tube!
WOW that's a great radio Shango.
Your the best. Thank you.
I had a cool lloyds clock radio when I was a kid wish I still had it. Had a cassette deck on it as well.
Very very cool radio❗️
📻🙂
The fly’s rockin out on L.A. Oldies.
So much diversity of programming on the radio in LA, where else can you tune into the top 100 mumble rap smash hits, maybe Meridian, Mississippi.
In NYC, “Hot 97” and “Power 105” both have “Mumble Rap”. Back in the 1980’s “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang was the first “Mumble Rap” to popularize the genre.
I have an Omscolite radio built in Japan that is very similar to this radio. It's 5 tube and AM/Shortwave though.
That fly sure liked that radio.
Very cool set that definitely has a Sixties automotive look about it. I was wondering what the extra markings were, so thanks for explaining about the failed attempt to organise radio into 'channels'. In the UK (where I am) we don't have callsigns so stations just tend to identify themselves by name and frequency. The BBC stations are identified by number (Radio 1 through Radio 5, and then 6 is a digital / online station).
You're lucky in LA to have such a range of AM and FM stations - over here, most of them are as you put it 'syndicated crap'. Most of our local stations are now Heart or Capital which play MOR adult contemporary and Top 40 respectively. AM is predominantly talk (mostly sports, in which I've no interest) and we lost our last decent AM oldies station some years back when Gold abandoned AM transmissions. Boston (where I have family) is much better, with a really good selection of formats.
Real pity that this thing isn't stereo. Did you find out what the neon lamps do? I thought dial illumination but that's a *big* dial and would surely need more bulbs, and probably incandescents at that. AM / FM indicator maybe?
Great looking wireless.
Thanks for the video.
Thanks for this video !
Most British radios of this era use at least 50 watts of power, Japan really were ahead of the game as concerns efficiency and design at this point.
110v designs were more efficient(30w) - but output power is lower - 2 watts max.
@@mohinderkaur6671 Ohhh yes, because they don't have a ridiculous amount of heat dissipated in a dropping resistor for the filaments, my bad! And I suppose if you wanted more power you could just get an output transformer with a lower primary side impedance, although you'd need an output valve which could handle that amount of current.
@@ArlenMoulton2 Yes. some series string 110v sets had 2 x 25l6 in push pull working of a voltage doubler . 8 watts or so o/p at 200v on plate
@@mohinderkaur6671 old radios seem to get a lot more volume for the same level of output power without clipping than modern equipment.
27:54 "Damn the AM sounds good" and the radio responds "ALL OKAY" :) :)
26:55 Yes... its a cover of Toto - Africa.... and well all I have to say is the original was the right choice!
whoever did that should be locked up, some songs should never be covered and that is one of them
It's Weezer - whoever the heck they are.
We all hate the electrolytic caps. No squeak, good job on the CV speaker. I've done more then a few myself.
Thats a good radio if its getting that on a weak tube. Nice. It's got cool styling too.
Been wanting to ask, what happened to the field day 2018 video? Still have the link to it in my browser history, the aesthetics on it were nice.
It's a good looking radio and was probably a good value for a low end radio.