man get your shots dude i love watching your show im a vet got many shots and now i got my 2 shots and a booster in 60 years old and have had 40 in my life lol
You are a great teacher, I have been following you for a long time, even though I do not understand English well because you are not afraid of copyright and you listen a lot to stations on the radio 😂 In general, keep up my greetings from the Republic of Tunisia in North Africa
Nice to see the Aerostar in the background. Those are never seen anymore in the northeast for years now! Impressive how the dial scale is not too far off after all these years, considering it is such a cheaply made radio. This was the type of radio that would sit on the bench in a workshop in the 70s, 80s, 90s and get buried in dust, beaten to death, and ultimately tossed in the trash when it stopped playing.
Birth control transistors. Haven't seen those in ages. Looks like the radio was in quarantine for twenty years in a garage. Love the test capacitor jumper technique so well demonstrated to bring the old caps back alive one by one. Just leave the outside sun worn shiny plastic alone so it looks like a scrub of a radio. Shango-rific repair.
My first cassette recorder was a Realtone in late 1971. It lasted about 5 years. The motor started running slower despite fresh batteries. I didn't know how to adjust the speed on the motor back then. Nice radio! Good repair!
They still are, in a way. You can listen to 'radio' on your phone for instance over a streaming app - but the phone needs millions/billions of transistors, software, network infrastructure etc. I know it's a stretch to compare it to modern day technology, but a transistor radio really is an elegant device.
Hello from England. I was going to wish you well in your recovery but no need now! But I will just say thanks for the channel. As someone who spent their childhood knee-deep in transistors (OC71s & BC108s), assorted resistors, diodes and capacitors, the occasional op-amp, soldering irons, etc. etc. I'm always happy when I see you've uploaded a new video of hardware from the 80s. Unfortunately, I was good at taking things apart, never so good at fixing them!
Always entertaining and educational mate I enjoy your work I’ve learnt so much about capacitors since watching your videos you’ve been a great help. Hope your coping with everything going on at the moment, best wishes to you and your family.
Happy to hear your back to normal, thanks for the 100's great educational videos; I'm an Irish follower living in Dublin Ireland, I'm currently on vacation in the Philippines and still have to get my fix of your fixes 😀 You have no idea of how much effort it took to get decent Internet 😀 lol
That's now one shiny chrome-plated turd. I'd buy it for a dollar (but I wouldn't pay the shipping). The entertainment is priceless, keep 'em rollin. Thank you.
Two videos in two days, so happy! Haven't watched it all yet but I hope this one hasn't been as abused as that poor Ford radio. PS: Hope you are on the mend
Love the video Shango! I had a crap radio like that in 1969. Got it at a discount place that sold cheap stuff-Two Guys in Baltimore. Glad you’re better. By the way I heard the top of the hour I.D. on 97.1 and it’s officially KNX-FM AM is only mentioned at the Top of the hour. Thanks again Sir!
good to see Another video out, hope you do better As time goes on, we all Go down that road at times even i been Quarantined a few Months ago from the Virus, but Got over it fast, No biggie it was more like a Bad cold, But other than that i say its good to keep busy So one don't get bored or what not Plus healthier to keep busy and not even think about the Virus, glad to see 2 Videos in a row, Keep them comming as you get better.
Anti chimney beach when colourful descriptions overcome adversity. Coronavirus rock asphalt cheese and tomato whenever pentambulated alongside gefingerpoken und schnapped dem wires.
Good to hear you survived!!!... I am in canada and had a little cold for two days and shrugged it off also!!!... I love your videos!!!... Please get back to the old tube tv stuff!!!...
@@volvo09 ~ a few years back we found a GE dual-cassette 'contractor's radio' released in the suburban wild. Some mecha bits had worked loose and it was missing a few of its control knobs and switch covers. Put it back together and got it working. Rigged some knobs and switch covers to be able to run the thing. Recently nabbed a set of the proper knobs and switches so the wee beastie can live again...
"....CHEAP radio...." Well, to be fair, a cheap radio is better than a high quality radio you cannot afford to buy. We like to reminisce about the well built radios of the 50s and before and their handsome cabinets and their serviceability and so on while overlooking the fact that they cost a small fortune. The radio of the 1930s and 40s might have been more than a week's salary for most people and certainly a working man. A teenager working a part time job could easily afford this one and have extra money for his gas tank or a date with the girlfriend at the movies. And a portable radio was much bigger and went through five dollars (five genuine silver dollars) in a few hours.
Glad you are feeling better. I chuckle in my car thinking about that statement in your last video "My cognitive ability is on the Presidential level today" :-p
Great video as always. I've been following Shango for at least 7 years now, and though I always look forward to his next one, I am convinced he's gotten alot angrier and more cynical in his old age.
5:44 - When I heard the brand, my mind went back to the 60's and 70's, and the utter disappointment I felt picking these sound-alike brands, light as a feather, boxes one would pick up, and the box would go out-of-square, and or the battery door wouldn't close, the volume knob always loose, off center, and static-y... Those were the type of radios given as prizes at boardwalk Wheels of Chance, which when brought home turned out to be not so much of a prize. The one in your vid doesn't look too bad quality, and the glob of lead on the antenna shows the former owner not only used it, but cared about safety too. And the fact it still works shows it was cared for. That glob of lead piqued my interest in the history of this one.
My god, do the AM radio stations in Los Angeles play nothing but ‘Vid nonsense 24/7? Almost enough to make a guy crazy!! Love the Quarantine Series. Thanks!
Love your vids! I've learned a LOT from watching these. :-) I'm jealous you have a classical AM station. I'd probably be restoring my large 30s and 40s console radios much sooner if I had that here. I'll I get on AM is talk radio.
SDI Technologies was founded as Realtone Electronics in 1956 by Saul Ashkenazi. In that year, the company introduced one of the first pocket cigarette lighters and one of the first transistor radios. Realtone went public in 1961.
Your Aerostar has been playing peek-a-boo with me the entire video. They're quite rare up in the Salt Belt (Connecticut). 9:57 - "Call Big Lou. He's on meds, too." 10:45 - "One Thing Leads to Another." Rather appropriate for the moment. 14:27 - I'm glad I'm not the only one that mocks that noise.
Wow! That radio bears a striking resemblance to a Layfette 4-band I have. I need to fix that. Any tips on where to find replacement speakers? Just like this radio, it needs to be shallow enough to fit between the front panel and the PC board.
About the AM performace, is it possible that, with your expirience, you can select parts of many circuits and components to build a dream transistor AM radio? Which part of the circuits and components you would select from which radios? I am about to build a board as an AM project
You going to talk about those lithium iron phosphate batteries you had in the previous video? I didn't know they made prismatic cells that small. I'd like to replicate that setup with the pouch and whatnot. Thanks for another good video!
Hi Shango. Can you help? I have a Marantz 2270 receiver. I play my music through mike in on my IPhone, but now it won’t work. Everything else does work. Any ideas? Thank you!
Hopefully as the weather warms and the People's Republic of California returns to some semblance of normal (whatever that may be) we might be treated to a buggout/cabin/field day video? I miss those. And the Fairmont... yeah, I'm weird like that. So be it.
I don’t know… the typical voice has changed, green mat is not there, Fluke replaced for some chinese garbage (like the boots Chris used to have). I don’t know if this is the real mr D. or some replacement to keep up the entertainment value ( twice this weekend by the way). There’s no blambulance sound either. I’d better wait for the next weekend to see what happens….
Dude, hope you feel better soon, you sound awful (no offense). Get well soon. Ricky from IBM, Ret Englewood Florida(Formerly from Los Angeles/Simi Valley)
I've had something the past week that feels like a bit of a cold, but every 6 hours or so, it feels as if Michael Jackson's doctor just shot me up with Propofol and I sleep for the next 6. I've had no chance to get tested, but it's not hard avoiding people. I think it's about over now for me, and hopefully for all of us.
These low-value electrolytics (under 1uF) are very prone to go open or develop high ESR over the years. In these cases, film or ceramic caps are way better!
Most of the dongle types don't do those frequencies without a converter, although the sdr programs 'tunes' them. Might want to check the specs on yours.
I'm playing with one of them RTL-SDR ones too - just not very sensitive. You get what you pay for I guess. Kiwi-SDR or FlyDog-SDR are higher performance I would expect.
This around the time Realtone became Soundesign and things went downhill from there. Regardless, even low end stuff back then doesn’t match the lowest of the low end crap coming from you know where today.
I am back to normal, no need for well wishes. This is the second and final video I did with limited access to the normal resources, roadside repair.
Great to know you are well again, sir !
Using limited ressources is a nice challange and welcome back to the living or so :D
Glad to hear
And you did it without the CDC! Cheers! 🍻 -Al
Been kinda liking the Shango; unplugged series, really tests your skills to diagnose and repair with no test equipment.
Nice. Here in Australia we didn't get FM radio until 1975 so it's unusual to see radios this old with FM.
man get your shots dude i love watching your show im a vet got many shots and now i got my 2 shots and a booster in 60 years old and have had 40 in my life lol
You are a great teacher, I have been following you for a long time, even though I do not understand English well because you are not afraid of copyright and you listen a lot to stations on the radio 😂 In general, keep up my greetings from the Republic of Tunisia in North Africa
The CC should translate my words into your choice of languages as you watch
Your version of the "no scrubs" song deserves a Grammy!!!!
Nice to see the Aerostar in the background. Those are never seen anymore in the northeast for years now!
Impressive how the dial scale is not too far off after all these years, considering it is such a cheaply made radio.
This was the type of radio that would sit on the bench in a workshop in the 70s, 80s, 90s and get buried in dust, beaten to death, and ultimately tossed in the trash when it stopped playing.
Its not the most expensive radio but it has a certain charm to it. You always do a great job. thanks and get well.
Shango never fails to amuse and educate. Authentic edutainment.
Birth control transistors. Haven't seen those in ages. Looks like the radio was in quarantine for twenty years in a garage.
Love the test capacitor jumper technique so well demonstrated to bring the old caps back alive one by one. Just leave
the outside sun worn shiny plastic alone so it looks like a scrub of a radio. Shango-rific repair.
Thanks for plugging away, very enjoyable and always a learning experience
My first cassette recorder was a Realtone in late 1971. It lasted about 5 years. The motor started running slower despite fresh batteries. I didn't know how to adjust the speed on the motor back then.
Nice radio! Good repair!
The transistor radio was a real marvel when they first became widely available, back in the day …
They still are, in a way. You can listen to 'radio' on your phone for instance over a streaming app - but the phone needs millions/billions of transistors, software, network infrastructure etc. I know it's a stretch to compare it to modern day technology, but a transistor radio really is an elegant device.
These videos are absolute delight to watch ☺️
I like the look of this radio. Thank you for bringing it back to life.
I appreciate your dedication to repairing old radios even though there really is no point to broadcast radio any more.
Propaganda - now so many other means of propaganda with every kid having his eyes fixed to a phone or worse a meta goggle zombie zontar clone.
Always great to see a video on Sunday too. Thank you. All my best.
Nice job. Glad your better. The views of the bay on your last video were awesome, and the photos. Thank you for sharing.
Hello from England. I was going to wish you well in your recovery but no need now! But I will just say thanks for the channel. As someone who spent their childhood knee-deep in transistors (OC71s & BC108s), assorted resistors, diodes and capacitors, the occasional op-amp, soldering irons, etc. etc. I'm always happy when I see you've uploaded a new video of hardware from the 80s. Unfortunately, I was good at taking things apart, never so good at fixing them!
Always entertaining and educational mate I enjoy your work I’ve learnt so much about capacitors since watching your videos you’ve been a great help. Hope your coping with everything going on at the moment, best wishes to you and your family.
Enjoy your repair videos enjoy seeinf the old radios and tvs come back to life stay safe
Happy to hear your back to normal, thanks for the 100's great educational videos; I'm an Irish follower living in Dublin Ireland, I'm currently on vacation in the Philippines and still have to get my fix of your fixes 😀 You have no idea of how much effort it took to get decent Internet 😀 lol
I keep looking at that knob - looks EXACTLY like the ones on my ZENITH Royal-780 [ and other Zenith radios].
- Great video, glad you rescued it.
📻🙂
Yeah it does look like a Zenith
Great video, nice restore. There were nostalgic metal-can transistors, the magic of my childhood.
That's now one shiny chrome-plated turd. I'd buy it for a dollar (but I wouldn't pay the shipping). The entertainment is priceless, keep 'em rollin. Thank you.
I REALLY ENJOY YOUR STUFF!
Two videos in two days, so happy! Haven't watched it all yet but I hope this one hasn't been as abused as that poor Ford radio. PS: Hope you are on the mend
Love the video Shango! I had a crap radio like that in 1969. Got it at a discount place that sold cheap stuff-Two Guys in Baltimore. Glad you’re better. By the way I heard the top of the hour I.D. on 97.1 and it’s officially KNX-FM AM is only mentioned at the Top of the hour.
Thanks again Sir!
HEY SHANGO!!! A 2FER Weekend!! Thanks for the video.
Love the look and feel of these in the wild/roadside revivals good times
I love your Videos and the Sarcasm to Live 👍🍀
You sound much better! I've owned several Realtone sets, and they perform exceptionally well and are sensitive also.
Wow, lots of room inside that one! And glad you're doing better.
Nice repair!
good to see Another video out, hope you do better As time goes on, we all Go down that road at times even i been Quarantined a few Months ago from the Virus, but Got over it fast, No biggie it was more like a Bad cold, But other than that i say its good to keep busy So one don't get bored or what not Plus healthier to keep busy and not even think about the Virus, glad to see 2 Videos in a row, Keep them comming as you get better.
Nice radio I have always liked these radios with the faux leather cabinet they have that vintage coolness I have at two of these style of radio
Love the quarantine recapicide. The skrub ain't got no skrub no
When you said "the tip of my thumb..." Under My Thumb " by the Stones, started playing in my head. Interesting!
Anti chimney beach when colourful descriptions overcome adversity. Coronavirus rock asphalt cheese and tomato whenever pentambulated alongside gefingerpoken und schnapped dem wires.
Do you no want no scrub?
@@shango066 birdbath scrub
Just what I was thinking.
Hope you feel better man!
Good to hear you survived!!!...
I am in canada and had a little cold
for two days and shrugged it off also!!!...
I love your videos!!!...
Please get back to the old tube tv stuff!!!...
14:05 “The film caps will never go bad. Not that it matters. It’s like chrome plating a turd.”
All the radio you need for tunes whilst screwing up drywall on the build site...
Pretty typical state to find one in too... Covered in paint dots, and plaster dust, dented to hell.
@@volvo09 ~ a few years back we found a GE dual-cassette 'contractor's radio' released in the suburban wild. Some mecha bits had worked loose and it was missing a few of its control knobs and switch covers. Put it back together and got it working. Rigged some knobs and switch covers to be able to run the thing. Recently nabbed a set of the proper knobs and switches so the wee beastie can live again...
"....CHEAP radio...." Well, to be fair, a cheap radio is better than a high quality radio you cannot afford to buy.
We like to reminisce about the well built radios of the 50s and before and their handsome cabinets and their serviceability and so on while overlooking the fact that they cost a small fortune.
The radio of the 1930s and 40s might have been more than a week's salary for most people and certainly a working man. A teenager working a part time job could easily afford this one and have extra money for his gas tank or a date with the girlfriend at the movies.
And a portable radio was much bigger and went through five dollars (five genuine silver dollars) in a few hours.
Glad you are feeling better. I chuckle in my car thinking about that statement in your last video "My cognitive ability is on the Presidential level today" :-p
Great video as always. I've been following Shango for at least 7 years now, and though I always look forward to his next one, I am convinced he's gotten alot angrier and more cynical in his old age.
Glad your getting better 👍⚛
Love that Corinthian leather on that real tone radio.
That's real gourmet stuff can't get that just anywhere
5:44 - When I heard the brand, my mind went back to the 60's and 70's, and the utter disappointment I felt picking these sound-alike brands, light as a feather, boxes one would pick up, and the box would go out-of-square, and or the battery door wouldn't close, the volume knob always loose, off center, and static-y... Those were the type of radios given as prizes at boardwalk Wheels of Chance, which when brought home turned out to be not so much of a prize. The one in your vid doesn't look too bad quality, and the glob of lead on the antenna shows the former owner not only used it, but cared about safety too. And the fact it still works shows it was cared for. That glob of lead piqued my interest in the history of this one.
Welcome back
I remember one Christmas long ago when someone thought solid state ment it was a brand , I said what brand did you get?
They said solid state brand
My god, do the AM radio stations in Los Angeles play nothing but ‘Vid nonsense 24/7? Almost enough to make a guy crazy!! Love the Quarantine Series. Thanks!
Shango likes to call it KVAX.
" Here here here " feeling better I see....cheers.
Love your vids! I've learned a LOT from watching these. :-) I'm jealous you have a classical AM station. I'd probably be restoring my large 30s and 40s console radios much sooner if I had that here. I'll I get on AM is talk radio.
YTer Mister Radio adds a switched input to his radios so you can plug in a Bluetooth device which allows you
to play your own music if you want.
C crane FM transmitter widely found on eBay for around 30 bucks
@@KongKingman I think he implied he was working on prewar AM and or AM/shortwave radios as well. But if he had FM in some that would work too.
@@hestheMaster ahh yes, after reading his reply I see that. Thanks
Time to build your own station to test radios... Haha
Cool little radidio!
Pretty damn good sounding lil radio .
SDI Technologies was founded as Realtone Electronics in 1956 by Saul Ashkenazi. In that year, the company introduced one of the first pocket cigarette lighters and one of the first transistor radios. Realtone went public in 1961.
Your Aerostar has been playing peek-a-boo with me the entire video. They're quite rare up in the Salt Belt (Connecticut).
9:57 - "Call Big Lou. He's on meds, too."
10:45 - "One Thing Leads to Another." Rather appropriate for the moment.
14:27 - I'm glad I'm not the only one that mocks that noise.
Yes, your OK and a nice caring person. 73 Leo
There's been a few Si transistors in the taller can too. I can't remember the TO- case style right now.
Lindo receptor. 73!
I'm glad that you're doing better and I'll bet you didn't even need a CRT booster, let alone a CDC booster, LOL.
Glad your back. Hoping you feel better. Best wishes from the Free State of Florida....😊😊😊😊😊 Wow a lot of propaganda broadcast on the radio.
Wow! That radio bears a striking resemblance to a Layfette 4-band I have. I need to fix that. Any tips on where to find replacement speakers? Just like this radio, it needs to be shallow enough to fit between the front panel and the PC board.
About the AM performace, is it possible that, with your expirience, you can select parts of many circuits and components to build a dream transistor AM radio?
Which part of the circuits and components you would select from which radios?
I am about to build a board as an AM project
Just a tinge of cigarette voice iam just kidding glad to see you doing thies videos I really enjoy them👍⚡
Old repaired radios matter 📻Don't they😂
We need TV repair videos. What happened to all those TVs that you showed testing CRTs that you found in that warehouse?
Neat radio
Be good for the garage shop or basement
the way cap polarity was marked in the days of solid state caught me out a couple of times.
Surprising good reception for a cheep radio with only 1 IF stage for AM and 2 for FM.
I think my uncle had one of these from k Mart. I think they were 20 bucks new. Not quite a Sony and I remember that pressed cardboard cabinet.
Shango should take it out to the desert for a test run.
Doesn’t seem too bad for a “cheap” radio.
📻🙂
The part from 19:30 made my day!🤣
You going to talk about those lithium iron phosphate batteries you had in the previous video? I didn't know they made prismatic cells that small. I'd like to replicate that setup with the pouch and whatnot.
Thanks for another good video!
They were selling them on eBay but eBay no longer allows the sale of battery sales so I'm not sure where you would get them
@@shango066 Ah darn. What is the capacity of the cells? 20ah?
It's difficult for me to imagine that there could be a radio station more woke/leftist/liberal than KPFK, but whoomp, there it is! KBLA.
Im surprised it got as loud as it did with a 32ohm speaker
Hi Shango. Can you help? I have a Marantz 2270 receiver. I play my music through mike in on my IPhone, but now it won’t work. Everything else does work. Any ideas? Thank you!
Интерестный приемник.
Hopefully as the weather warms and the People's Republic of California returns to some semblance of normal (whatever that may be) we might be treated to a buggout/cabin/field day video? I miss those. And the Fairmont... yeah, I'm weird like that. So be it.
I don’t know… the typical voice has changed, green mat is not there, Fluke replaced for some chinese garbage (like the boots Chris used to have). I don’t know if this is the real mr D. or some replacement to keep up the entertainment value ( twice this weekend by the way). There’s no blambulance sound either. I’d better wait for the next weekend to see what happens….
No scrubs. xD
Get well, and that TLC song at the end was what pissed me off at them. Before they seemed talented for the most part.
Another radio station run by the health department
GET WAIL SOON THANKS
Dude, hope you feel better soon, you sound awful (no offense). Get well soon.
Ricky from IBM, Ret Englewood Florida(Formerly from Los Angeles/Simi Valley)
Alot of new raidos don't include am its getting harder to find a cheap basic am fm cd raido thats decent quality.
Seems that it gets deaf at the top of the FM band. I.F. Alignment ?
You have omicron? I see LA is very high with cases, Get well my friend 73's -Cheers!
I've had something the past week that feels like a bit of a cold, but every 6 hours or so, it feels as if Michael Jackson's doctor just shot me up with Propofol and I sleep for the next 6. I've had no chance to get tested, but it's not hard avoiding people. I think it's about over now for me, and hopefully for all of us.
@@pcno2832 Lets hope so but unfortunately looks bad still.
This radio aint got no scrub and got no scrub.... "OOOOOOOHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh?!?"
These low-value electrolytics (under 1uF) are very prone to go open or develop high ESR over the years. In these cases, film or ceramic caps are way better!
Yeah and you're probably getting here for wearable such a nice showing pray Cecily
🎧🔊🔊
6:30 I'm always amused by that "BATTER/ELECTRIC" logo, as if batteries are not electric.
Shango in a serious note. I got one of these SDR dongles. I can’t get the darn thing to receive AM band. Any ideas?
Bigger antenna?
I have never played with one of those but I would imagine would require at least 20 to 30 ft minimum for an antenna
Most of the dongle types don't do those frequencies without a converter, although the sdr programs 'tunes' them. Might want to check the specs on yours.
@@audiokaos4703 agreed. These will not tune the lower bands without a converter.
I'm playing with one of them RTL-SDR ones too - just not very sensitive. You get what you pay for I guess. Kiwi-SDR or FlyDog-SDR are higher performance I would expect.
ShangoSMR
This around the time Realtone became Soundesign and things went downhill from there. Regardless, even low end stuff back then doesn’t match the lowest of the low end crap coming from you know where today.
One thing leads to another ..
Muốn mua radio
So this is what Norm Mc Donald is up to since he died... Fixing radios? 😱
I heard you can catch what you have by watching this video . Ill wear a mask while watching
I put gloves on to reply to you.