I have a couple 138XLRs, and when powered off, neither meter sits at the same spot (beautiful light on your meter), but the volumes controls are nice and smooth (much better than most newer radios). Thanks for the video on this award-winning CB. 👍
Thanks, now I know not to waste much time on that issue. Not sure if its worth $20-25 on parts but I may just recap this rig and see if that evens out the volume and RF gain controls.
Nice radio found it interesting about the meters being different and that resistor thing at the back of it got me thinking as well? And the needle not settling down would be a pet peeve for me too Great job Mike.👍🇳🇿
Hi Mike, Very nice video just wanted to let everyone know the correct burnishing tool for cleaning the contacts on the relays is made by GC Electronics part # GC 9338. There available on Newark Electronics and also Ebay. I have worked on one of those and had to replace the microphone gain potentiometer. Take care !
@@slingerrr9548 yea I need to get one of those. I didn’t order one because I thought I would find my old one from back in the day. Never found it and never bought one yet. That’s one of those tools you use once a decade or so. Hihi Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
Did KORN say FREE Radio? I am flabbergasted that I beat him here-- I need to contact Guiness and apply for a Record Form. They are located in London UK. I have somewhere a burnishing tool that I purchased from, Wholesale Industrial Electronics in Charleston S.C. about 45 years ago. I needed it for my D&A 12 Tube Phantom relays. It doesn't look like it would do anything, but it does. . Foxman may be outdone with this lengthy comment, and I would continue but I want to leave when I am 98.3% done writing. Happy Post Thanksgiving, from UDX-21 South Carolina
I saw last night that FoxMan is currently at 100% !!!! YES! I have not yet needed the burnishing tool on low voltage relays un less the were exposed to humidity. But on larger 120-220V AC relays the heavy paper trick never worked very well. IMO
My best friend had on one all recapped on mobile one and I was talking to him on channel 31 last night me and a whole bunch of guys we got our own group now and there's a lot of fun and we do a great job every Saturday night we get on there now we're setting up our radio station again my friend Rd Red devil 058 Virginia at the Red devil microphone that's what his handle is they call him back cuz he had the Red devil Mike back in the day and me and him been working on his four Element being we finally got the match down right where it's supposed to be it was very windy and cold it dropped down a lot last night but definitely winter is coming finally we got the match right he's been running the antenna and his mobile and stick in the antenna for his window and keeping his heat on to talk on the radio so we can get something set up down there it sounds funny but he's been talking all over the place around Virginia I love the way that thing works it works very very well he'll point it right at my house and he sounds like he's sitting on my front lawn it's working fantastic got a new antenna got it hits to my kicker box and it's working great I'm hearing people from France today shooting star state of Virginia I hope you had a great Thanksgiving you and your family shooting star 1985 have a fantastic weekend
This topic would be a good one to discuss as I've got an old Apollo Mk4 Base station here in New Zealand and whenever i pass my LED light operated Magnifying glass over it to look at the board it picks up pulses of Noise from it as this old radio has a Great sensitive Receiver. But i have heard there Cheap LEDs that do this or maybe this old radio is just such good Receiver? Would be a Good topic to do though comparing old radio versus new radios and LED lighting interference.
not to get off course here but it would be really cool if you do a video on using your jump start pack to power your radios, what power are you running and how long will the pack last, i thought of using that same way to power my yeasu ft 891 hf radio at 50 watts, but wasn't sure if it would turn on, thanks KD9JRU
390 Good news i got beam up today you'll see newest video all now have do hook up coax and hook up rotor get throught the tree. to my radio toom get nuts on big bolts on main antennna mount. tomorrow
@@390WagonMaster hahaha np anyway if you ever wanna get rid of that cobra i hope you think about me,cobra radio,s are hard to get in the netherlands the only one whe can get in the netherlands is Cobra 29-LX EU and i dont really like that one my favorite is the one you have there or the one with 80 channels
I have a couple 138XLRs, and when powered off, neither meter sits at the same spot (beautiful light on your meter), but the volumes controls are nice and smooth (much better than most newer radios). Thanks for the video on this award-winning CB. 👍
Thanks, now I know not to waste much time on that issue. Not sure if its worth $20-25 on parts but I may just recap this rig and see if that evens out the volume and RF gain controls.
Nice radio found it interesting about the meters being different and that resistor thing at the back of it got me thinking as well? And the needle not settling down would be a pet peeve for me too Great job Mike.👍🇳🇿
Cobra my idol radio 👍👍👍
The Meter looks awesome now! Plus the knobsss and everything cleaned up nicely!
Saw this video yesterday very nice radio saw it on my dad's 85 inch tv .
Nice radio, Keep keeping the old ones alive!
I try my best.
Nice looking radio for it's age for sure. Great video. ✌✌
Nice old radio...never had a nice one like that way back when.
Hi Mike, Very nice video just wanted to let everyone know the correct burnishing tool for cleaning the contacts on the relays is made by GC Electronics part # GC 9338. There available on Newark Electronics and also Ebay. I have worked on one of those and had to replace the microphone gain potentiometer. Take care !
@@slingerrr9548 yea I need to get one of those. I didn’t order one because I thought I would find my old one from back in the day. Never found it and never bought one yet. That’s one of those tools you use once a decade or so. Hihi
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
Another good repair. Thanks
Did KORN say FREE Radio? I am flabbergasted that I beat him here-- I need to contact Guiness and apply for a Record Form. They are located in London UK. I have somewhere a burnishing tool that I purchased from, Wholesale Industrial Electronics in Charleston S.C. about 45 years ago. I needed it for my D&A 12 Tube Phantom relays. It doesn't look like it would do anything, but it does. . Foxman may be outdone with this lengthy comment, and I would continue but I want to leave when I am 98.3% done writing. Happy Post Thanksgiving, from UDX-21 South Carolina
Love it
I saw last night that FoxMan is currently at 100% !!!! YES!
I have not yet needed the burnishing tool on low voltage relays un less the were exposed to humidity. But on larger 120-220V AC relays the heavy paper trick never worked very well. IMO
@@390WagonMaster 105% reality, which is Mathematically impossible unless it is in The Bizzaro World.
Nice work
love my 138
had one can,t beat the receive.
I would like to see you do the alignment no matter how long that video may be.
My best friend had on one all recapped on mobile one and I was talking to him on channel 31 last night me and a whole bunch of guys we got our own group now and there's a lot of fun and we do a great job every Saturday night we get on there now we're setting up our radio station again my friend Rd Red devil 058 Virginia at the Red devil microphone that's what his handle is they call him back cuz he had the Red devil Mike back in the day and me and him been working on his four Element being we finally got the match down right where it's supposed to be it was very windy and cold it dropped down a lot last night but definitely winter is coming finally we got the match right he's been running the antenna and his mobile and stick in the antenna for his window and keeping his heat on to talk on the radio so we can get something set up down there it sounds funny but he's been talking all over the place around Virginia I love the way that thing works it works very very well he'll point it right at my house and he sounds like he's sitting on my front lawn it's working fantastic got a new antenna got it hits to my kicker box and it's working great I'm hearing people from France today shooting star state of Virginia I hope you had a great Thanksgiving you and your family shooting star 1985 have a fantastic weekend
My concern about using LED lighting is electrical noise from them entering the radio.
So back early 2000s On a rainy day I checked out that theory trying different LEDs on different radios.... No noise detected.
This topic would be a good one to discuss as I've got an old Apollo Mk4 Base station here in New Zealand and whenever i pass my LED light operated Magnifying glass over it to look at the board it picks up pulses of Noise from it as this old radio has a Great sensitive Receiver. But i have heard there Cheap LEDs that do this or maybe this old radio is just such good Receiver?
Would be a Good topic to do though comparing old radio versus new radios and LED lighting interference.
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not to get off course here but it would be really cool if you do a video on using your jump start pack to power your radios, what power are you running and how long will the pack last, i thought of using that same way to power my yeasu ft 891 hf radio at 50 watts, but wasn't sure if it would turn on, thanks KD9JRU
I have used the jump pack to power AM/FM CB radios is okay results. Then I moved to LIpo type battery. I will post a video on this .
390 Good news i got beam up today you'll see newest video all now have do hook up coax and hook up rotor get throught the tree. to my radio toom get nuts on big bolts on main antennna mount. tomorrow
from 19,39 til 20.24 there is a black screen lol awesome radio and video tho
Thanks not sure how this got passed me…. Hihi My software is playing whit me again. Thanks
@@390WagonMaster hahaha np anyway if you ever wanna get rid of that cobra i hope you think about me,cobra radio,s are hard to get in the netherlands the only one whe can get in the netherlands is Cobra 29-LX EU and i dont really like that one my favorite is the one you have there or the one with 80 channels
Is there a Euro 80ch version of the 138XLR?
@390WagonMaster lol i think the 146 is the one i mean with the high band in it