What a difference from what we have seen for the last 15 to 20 years, or so. If you go to Canadian Tire, any Circuit City, (what used to be Radio Shack in Canada), most hardware stores and some sporting goods/outdoor enthusiast stores (for camping and hiking), you can find multi-channel pocket sized communication devices, that need no license to operate. I love these videos you make. This is another great video. I hope you had a great Christmas, and I hope you have a Happy New Year. Cheers!
Radio shack in Canada became "The Source by Circuit City" because Circuit City bought intertan corp, which was the Radio Shack parent company after they broke away from Tandy Corp of the USA. When Circuit shity went bust, the Source stores remained in Canada and were bought out by Bell.
Wow, those are old. I remember playing with walkie-talkies in the late 70s and early 80s. They even had a morris code guide printed on them. The metal antennas always broke and we had to stick a coat hanger in them to sort of get them to work again.
Same here. Late 70's my brother and I had a pair of walkie-talkies made by Realistic and they had the morris code button and guide on them. Our uncle bought them for us, through the mail, from an ad on the back page of a comic book.
those are pretty oldskool needing tx and rx crystals. You can still find similar radios in thrift stores that were sold as "help radios". The idea was you'd keep it in your car and if you had car trouble you could tune in channel 19 or channel 9 and call for help. These were usually 40 channel, 5W radios about the same size, with a small telescoping magnetic mount antenna. The idea being you'd plunk it on your car roof to act as a ground plane. No AA cells though, you'd plug it into the cig lighter socket. I ended up retrofitting one with a small gel cell to make it portable.
The Radio Shack/Tandy units also used those dummy batteries. I had a couple in the 1990s and they were a bit of fun. In the 80s I had a three channel one that I played with a bit. I only worked out some time later there was no output as a leg had fallen off the PA transistor. A stiff piece of wire made a good repair and it got out well from then on. I swapped it and another of a different model for a pinball machine.
that was a good explanation for the use of dummy batteries. I have always been really careful with Realistic handhelds because I was afraid to burn something out. I've never even plugged it into a car because it is marked 12.5v and a car is 13.8v lol. I guess I can go wild with all that extra voltage now
I loved my cb radio I have to admit. I also did some dx-ing but having to learn Morse put me off going for an amateur ticket. I have an old ARRL yearbook which I think is a great reference for general electronics.
Bloody hell, they are really old, no synthesiser pll chip and transistor tx/rx audio p.a. Mind you, they are built like a brick shithouse so anyone that picks a fight can be clobbered with one lol. 1968-75 era i would think.
Very impressive!!! Great skills finding the problem and soldering that tiny diode. Didn’t burn any of the surrounding area. That was a tiny space!! Do you know if any person/shop would can check out my Radio shack TRC-216 walkie? Receives great but TX disappears after 30 feet.
Hello, I wanted to ask you a favor, if you still have those two radio devices in the video: could you take a photo / video recording of the PCB on the circuit side, exactly under the germanium diode you put as a repair? I have a problem with the circuit just below the diode part. Many Thanks.
Hey I got 2 Crown K2 amplifiers of course i got them on ebay they need repair BUT do I need any fans inside the amplifiers? That model never had any fans
My first CB radio was a spacephone walkie talkie kit. (Google it) I ordered it from popular electronics magazine. $16. I was just a kid. (1961) I just ordered one... real smart. The antenna was like a fishing pole! I even got a Class C CB licence. KAI0029... have no idea how I remember that call sign.
i still have my one with orig book and box the book has the parts info with wire diagram of it and my inspect is 65502094 and on 26mhz and still works today and the part he is about to replace is D8 1S188
Hi. The stand by voltage on a TV is supposed to be a DC voltage, right? Mine was 5 V AC. A transformer crossed over into the cold side of the TV's power supply, and it also had a lot of electrolytic caps. There was a rectifier bridge in the hot side, but my meter only read the presence of AC voltage everywhere on the power board. What could have been the most-likely bad component? How do you deal with ribbon cables that are too short for you to be able to put back into the socket without messing up the cable, as in a Magnavox CD player (I want to ring the necks of engineers who have no consideration for people that have to fix their stuff!)? Give your cats extra treats for me. Frank
It all depends on conditions. These are handhelds, so the antenna is a compromise. I would say at least 5 miles if you are in a flat, wide-open area with no hills or buildings. If there are a lot of sunspots then you could possibly talk hundreds of miles (skip) if the channel is free of interference.
I have an old CB that has about 10 crystals in that FF. Send me a list of the ones you need and I'll resolved and send! Btw, that blower sounds as if it needs bearing(s). The cobbler wears the worst shoes, right! Not offensive to me anyway. Lol
Nervous watching the way they were physically handled’ nice old radios like those need to be handled with a little more respect and care! Maybe a rubberised bench to start 😮
ok, dumb is not a nice word, I cannot tell you how many radios, portable tv's, transceivers have wires from the back mounted batteries and other items running to the front when you take off the back. I have never seen sets with the wires broken off as care was used to remove the backs and insert batteries. Since this was not a daily occurrence it was not a problem and is not a "DUMB" design, it was cost effective ie: less costly than a plug you could remove. Ditto on the antennas, many radios and transceivers came with screw off antennas as it was a very easy thing to remove if you needed access. There were a few units that had spring straps or other connections with out screws but were very problematic as you want the best connection you can get to the antenna. We dont need to agree with everyone's ideas in hindsight but calling them dumb just shows off your bias without thinking through the reasons for doing so.
Changing the batteries on one of these was an almost daily operation if it was used alot. Ask yourself this question. Would sony have made a radio like this, with wires attached to the removable back? No, they wouldn't. They would have made the battery compartment removable. It's a dumb design to everyone but you. Case closed.
@@12voltvids please read my original again, it answers that question, you cannot look at 30 year old anything with todays eyes without actually thinking about the questions it forces you to think about it, 30 years ago most electronics ate batteries due to current draw and a transmitter / reciever even more so, adding quick connects to all the wires in all the radios would have raised the cost to sell. I repair 80 year old radios and they did a lot of things different than today, it does not make them worse than those made today.
@@men4skirts Funny because radio shack you popped the back off and replaced the batteries. No wires attached to the back waiting to break every time you opened it to change batteries.
What a difference from what we have seen for the last 15 to 20 years, or so. If you go to Canadian Tire, any Circuit City, (what used to be Radio Shack in Canada), most hardware stores and some sporting goods/outdoor enthusiast stores (for camping and hiking), you can find multi-channel pocket sized communication devices, that need no license to operate. I love these videos you make. This is another great video. I hope you had a great Christmas, and I hope you have a Happy New Year. Cheers!
Radio shack in Canada became "The Source by Circuit City" because Circuit City bought intertan corp, which was the Radio Shack parent company after they broke away from Tandy Corp of the USA.
When Circuit shity went bust, the Source stores remained in Canada and were bought out by Bell.
Wow, those are old. I remember playing with walkie-talkies in the late 70s and early 80s. They even had a morris code guide printed on them. The metal antennas always broke and we had to stick a coat hanger in them to sort of get them to work again.
Same here. Late 70's my brother and I had a pair of walkie-talkies made by Realistic and they had the morris code button and guide on them. Our uncle bought them for us, through the mail, from an ad on the back page of a comic book.
those are pretty oldskool needing tx and rx crystals. You can still find similar radios in thrift stores that were sold as "help radios". The idea was you'd keep it in your car and if you had car trouble you could tune in channel 19 or channel 9 and call for help. These were usually 40 channel, 5W radios about the same size, with a small telescoping magnetic mount antenna. The idea being you'd plunk it on your car roof to act as a ground plane. No AA cells though, you'd plug it into the cig lighter socket. I ended up retrofitting one with a small gel cell to make it portable.
The Radio Shack/Tandy units also used those dummy batteries. I had a couple in the 1990s and they were a bit of fun. In the 80s I had a three channel one that I played with a bit. I only worked out some time later there was no output as a leg had fallen off the PA transistor. A stiff piece of wire made a good repair and it got out well from then on. I swapped it and another of a different model for a pinball machine.
that was a good explanation for the use of dummy batteries. I have always been really careful with Realistic handhelds because I was afraid to burn something out. I've never even plugged it into a car because it is marked 12.5v and a car is 13.8v lol. I guess I can go wild with all that extra voltage now
"It's a Sanyo, what do you expect".
12vv bingo!!!
Amazing video as always
I loved my cb radio I have to admit. I also did some dx-ing but having to learn Morse put me off going for an amateur ticket. I have an old ARRL yearbook which I think is a great reference for general electronics.
Bloody hell, they are really old, no synthesiser pll chip and transistor tx/rx audio p.a.
Mind you, they are built like a brick shithouse so anyone that picks a fight can be clobbered with one lol.
1968-75 era i would think.
I had a couple vintage ones back in the day that had a 5' and a 7' antenna on them, it was a pain to deal with
It would cost more for a set of ch 19 & ch14 rocks than they're worth.
Those were the thing back in the day to have.
Those are so janky they are actually cool and sound fabulously dischordant. What a mess inside !
I've still got an old pair of squawkie-talkies, 12 volt. TR-4000 pip squeeks; Missing battery clips, but I'll do that repair later...
Very impressive!!! Great skills finding the problem and soldering that tiny diode. Didn’t burn any of the surrounding area. That was a tiny space!!
Do you know if any person/shop would can check out my Radio shack TRC-216 walkie? Receives great but TX disappears after 30 feet.
Great video. They look super cool, maybe in a display?
Would be great for props.
I knew a tech that called Pioneer Piss in ear and Clairtone Scaretone. I never liked single crystals, they are now even more expensive.
Hello, I wanted to ask you a favor, if you still have those two radio devices in the video: could you take a photo / video recording of the PCB on the circuit side, exactly under the germanium diode you put as a repair? I have a problem with the circuit just below the diode part. Many Thanks.
They look like 1990's cell phones
Hey I got 2 Crown K2 amplifiers of course i got them on ebay they need repair BUT do I need any fans inside the amplifiers? That model never had any fans
I think crown k series amps are supposed to be mounted with 1U vent panels above and below amps and they are ok.
You tell people that this your cellphone.
reginald lawrence lol
I used to have a cellphone about the size of this thing. A motorola 8000.
@@12voltvids I remember those. They were so bulky.
You can go play Army man now.
Hello there Why my two way walkie talkies don’t transmit or receive unless they literally touch each other?
My first CB radio was a spacephone walkie talkie kit. (Google it) I ordered it from popular electronics magazine. $16. I was just a kid. (1961) I just ordered one... real smart. The antenna was like a fishing pole! I even got a Class C CB licence. KAI0029... have no idea how I remember that call sign.
Mine was XM12-23086. Don't ask me how I remember that either.
i still have my one with orig book and box the book has the parts info with wire diagram of it and my inspect is 65502094 and on 26mhz and still works today and the part he is about to replace is D8 1S188
It was CH 19 for the beaker back then "19 - roger - roger brake .
Dont remember CH 9 emergency ?
This is radio very nice!
Ciao! Ho trovato due tokai transistor 5 watt, però non ho il caricatore si può fare qualche modifica? 🙏
Hi. The stand by voltage on a TV is supposed to be a DC voltage, right? Mine was 5 V AC. A transformer crossed over into the cold side of the TV's power supply, and it also had a lot of electrolytic caps. There was a rectifier bridge in the hot side, but my meter only read the presence of AC voltage everywhere on the power board. What could have been the most-likely bad component?
How do you deal with ribbon cables that are too short for you to be able to put back into the socket without messing up the cable, as in a Magnavox CD player (I want to ring the necks of engineers who have no consideration for people that have to fix their stuff!)?
Give your cats extra treats for me.
Frank
How far can you talk on them do you think
It all depends on conditions. These are handhelds, so the antenna is a compromise. I would say at least 5 miles if you are in a flat, wide-open area with no hills or buildings.
If there are a lot of sunspots then you could possibly talk hundreds of miles (skip) if the channel is free of interference.
I noticed one is missing crystals right away.
You work on a pair of Trc 500
I suppose you know that the walk-in talkie was invented in Canada?
I have an old CB that has about 10 crystals in that FF. Send me a list of the ones you need and I'll resolved and send! Btw, that blower sounds as if it needs bearing(s). The cobbler wears the worst shoes, right! Not offensive to me anyway. Lol
Blower is fine. It is mounted on a bracket that shakes.
Nervous watching the way they were physically handled’ nice old radios like those need to be handled with a little more respect and care! Maybe a rubberised bench to start 😮
Sanyo
ok, dumb is not a nice word, I cannot tell you how many radios, portable tv's, transceivers have wires from the back mounted batteries and other items running to the front when you take off the back. I have never seen sets with the wires broken off as care was used to remove the backs and insert batteries. Since this was not a daily occurrence it was not a problem and is not a "DUMB" design, it was cost effective ie: less costly than a plug you could remove. Ditto on the antennas, many radios and transceivers came with screw off antennas as it was a very easy thing to remove if you needed access. There were a few units that had spring straps or other connections with out screws but were very problematic as you want the best connection you can get to the antenna. We dont need to agree with everyone's ideas in hindsight but calling them dumb just shows off your bias without thinking through the reasons for doing so.
Changing the batteries on one of these was an almost daily operation if it was used alot. Ask yourself this question. Would sony have made a radio like this, with wires attached to the removable back? No, they wouldn't. They would have made the battery compartment removable. It's a dumb design to everyone but you. Case closed.
@@12voltvids please read my original again, it answers that question, you cannot look at 30 year old anything with todays eyes without actually thinking about the questions it forces you to think about it, 30 years ago most electronics ate batteries due to current draw and a transmitter / reciever even more so, adding quick connects to all the wires in all the radios would have raised the cost to sell. I repair 80 year old radios and they did a lot of things different than today, it does not make them worse than those made today.
@@men4skirts
Funny because radio shack you popped the back off and replaced the batteries. No wires attached to the back waiting to break every time you opened it to change batteries.