I'd be interested to know more about how these items got into the public's hands, what was the process? was there auctions or something when the planes got broken up? all the aluminium re used then the tougher to recycle things like the radio and such just sold off? or were they sort of sat in the skip in the back? does anyone know? PS Im after its T1154 Counterpart, if you have one your looking to sell please hit me up. Obviously with these pieces of gear its more a conservation piece, because if you don't know im trying to build up enough of a hoard of curiosities to make a museum, but lets see how the heck that works out! JUNE 2019 LIVESTREAM HIGHLIGHTS HERE :- th-cam.com/video/4PHILvhzNT8/w-d-xo.html
Government auctions can be weird things. Back in the early 90s, the University I attended placed a bid at a government auction for "Telescopes, 2 crates." They bid like $3000, sight unseen, hoping to get some optical telescopes for their astronomy class. Not much for 2 crates of telescopes, right? Anyway, they won the auction. And the crates turned out to be gigantic, and contained 2 radio telescopes that became the beginning of their radio astronomy program.
ther are lots of bits of panvair Tornado parts on fleabay right now, so yes when the planes go out of service they sell them off for scrap, unless there are other countries still operating the type- the parts are essentially worthless - accept maybee to collectors -enter enterprising ebay dealers
In the US post WW2 and Korea different surplus retailers would get surplus at auctions and sell in shops or mail order. Ham radio operators would buy and modify for thier use. Fair Radio still has a catalog, now it is online. In the US they passed a law they cannot surplus any more radios due to encription tech.
My grandfather fitted these in to the Lancaster bombers while he was in the RAF during the war. After the war he bought a few of them and refurbished them for household use. He even made his first television from a green radar screen in which the family watched the Queen's coronation. I have an earlier model than the one you have, sadly it's not working as one of the valves has blown and the capacitors are temperamental. After all, the life expectancy of these radios was the same as the crew, one mission. He advised me that they should be turned on regularly as they have a tendancy to malfunction if left for long periods of time. Sadly, I don't have the know how to get mine working, but I love it all the same. Your model I believe covers the tropical bands, 2300 - 2495, 3200 - 3400, and 4750 - 5060 kilohertz. I have a circuit diagram up in the loft, I'll scan it and send it to you when I dare to venture up there soon.
8:22-8:27 I love how incredibly dystopian that looks and sounds! “Stay inside, alright?! We need to get through this-” coming through this WWII-era plane radio during the COVID-19 quarantine is eerie.
that would be snazzy. im not really up on the history. but more the manufacturing processes. maybe ill run around RAF hendon one day visiting some of my faves haha.
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@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER the manufacturing processes would be really interesting. The history is covered by so many others.
Hi Sam, The HET switch (or BFO - Beat frequency oscillator) is used to listen to Morse code transmissions. Turning on the HET switch inserts another oscillator so that the CW (carrier Wave) of the Morse code can be heard. This is needed as CW transmissions are just a carrier wave with no modulation. In fact if you listen to Morse code without the BFO you will actually hear the background static get quieter when the carrier is keyed! My two kids and I really enjoy your music and creations and I have even attempted building a version of your Arduino powered sequencer! Stay safe and hope you are all ok in lockdown.
My granduncle died in a Lancaster shot down over Holland in 1943. And I've been a fan of techno since first hearing the Tour de France 12" as a little kid back in '82. Which is all just to say, I've come to the right place. ✌️😎
There’s a brilliant shop here in Lincoln called J. Birkett’s that sells everything possible to do with radios and old aircraft and stuff. It’s an absolute Aladdin’s cave of dusty vintage headphones, dials, knobs, microphones, speakers, oscillators etc. etc. and I love it. It also has a model Lancaster that is not for sale and has been hanging from the ceiling since forever.
My 'uncle' Jimmy was a pilot flying Lancaster bombers in WWII. He was a character who was riding round on a motorbike right up to his eighties...he probably used the same radio on his sorties...like your flight jacket.
We don't have the same hobbies, and are from opposite sides of the ocean. But I'm your brother from another mother. Grew up obsessed with dismantling anything and everything. I'd put it back together, often better than it was. Built models, with with hand-crafted dioramas. Love your vibe. Going to follow closely.
super cool.When I was a teen I was always coming back from the council tip with old valve recievers. Some worked.Some didn't but I learnt to repair some of them. I have been messing with a 70s Russian made reciever with a long ariel made with copper wire from an old ignition coil.
My old man was a flight engineer on Lancasters during WW the second. Not a radio operator, but maybe there was a chap in the same plane using one of these. He would probably have hated the music, but would have appreciated that someone is still using the stuff.
I recently uploaded a few videos on the Hallicrafters SX-25, came out around the same time as this one you have there, maybe little newer, but early 40's. thanks for the video! love it
If you’re looking for videos about this stuff, there’s a man on TH-cam who has literally many many hours of great info on these types of radio gear. He goes by the name MICROWAVE1 and he is about the business. I really have a high regard for this guy, since what he is doing is of value to people like me who don’t know what a command set is but I have desire to learn more. This is a great video, you’ve really made that radio into a decent instrument where perhaps not many people would have seen much promise there. THANKS AGAIN, COOL STUFF!!
Broadcast radio uses AM (Amplitude Modulation) and the oscillator is there to allow you to listen to CW (Continuous Wave -- used to transmit Morse code) or DSB/SSB (Double Side Band / Single Side Band) which is a bit like AM but without a carrier wave. The oscillator replace the missing carrier to make the voice or the Morse code audible.
Our friend Hainbach will have a field day (and maybe feel a tidbit jealous) seeing you operating this vintage piece of equipment. Reminds me of my youth (in the faraway 50s) when I used to tinker and play with a big valve magic-eyed multiband SW radio (from the US Army surplus) trying to listen to world radio and propaganda programmes at night or create blips and bloops and whistling electro-acoustic tunes to the everlasting despair of the rest of the family.
I loved the planes when I was a little champ too. Went to airshows with my dad and had 3 page fold-out posters of planes floor to ceiling which came from some 'ring binder monthly collect' thing. Also couldn't afford airfix but used to buy the pre-built ones which were hanging from the model shop ceiling and paint them myself. Ahhh the model shop... I'm not sure why i'm telling everyone this. I blame isolation..
In an alternate reality there are some tricked out restored planes with built in synths right next to the airplane controls and the process of flying makes music.
It's amazing to watch you make music with just about anything you put your hands on. This has quickly become my favorite channel on TH-cam. Greetings from the US, coffee and white noise before work for the win.
I too was obsessed with aeronautics as a kid. Dad was in the Airforce and granddad was in WWII so I had a healthy obsession with early fighters. I built lots of models myself. Good times. Hmm, never considered the impact that may have had on my now fascination with electronics and noise generating gizmos. Entertaining video.
I still see the 10 year old you! I also share the same passion and mixture of vintage synths along with the era of aircraft you spoke about. It's hard to explain the feeling you get with the aircraft of that time to others around you. Im a pilot and my desire for flying stems from my love for airplanes from that decade.
The Type R1155L was used in Royal Air Force Coastal Command aircraft,utilising maritime radio frequencies as was the steel version the R1155N which was used in the RAF Air Sea Rescue launches.
Dude, Sam, I am envious, I'd love to own one of those! I live in the city in Canada that has the only other Lancaster Bomber that still flies, and I love her so much. I've even been out to see, and touch (I spent 45 minutes chatting with the curator and he let me, it was rad) what was the third (sadly decommissioned) Lancaster in New Zealand! I share your love of old planes, and I also love old ships. If you ever get a chance, come to the Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, or MOTAT in New Zealand!
I was obsessed by shortwave radios as a really young kid before I got near my brother’s Vox amp and started making non musical sounds with a cable that was unattached to anything, moved on to tape recorders and then synths. I’m mad jealous of this purchase, I cannot lie
That is so awesome. I once had a halicrafters tube world band radio. I've always thought about what I could do with those RF sounds in between channels. I grew up toying with radio shack kits. I'm surprised I'm not an EDM artist...lol Maybe your show will inspire me?
That's pretty cool Sam. I saw there's a Spitfire museum just a few miles from your museum; bet you've been there a few times, no? I picked up something off eBay a while back with a 'magic eye' tube in it, think it was a Heathkit capacitor tester. I was going to fix up some old radios I got from an uncle. He had given me old Heathkit TX and Collins RX, but I just couldn't get around to recapping those old radios. I was a commuter pilot for about a year. Went to school, got a 4 year aviation degree, flew twin turboprops and then we had a recession. Went back to school for computer science. Like it better, more problem solving and that suits me better. I always like how you turn it into music somehow! Cheers :)
My father was WWII RAF Aircrew AG/Sigs Coastal Command, mostly Wimpies, later Libs and Electronic Warfare measures, so used this very model 1939 - '46 ... I've actually sat in the wireless ops station on the Wimpy at Hendon (aged about 9 or 10, an engineer working on the craft saw my interest, and I was allowed aboard) Mostly war surplus was auctioned off to all bidders at huge MOD warehouses (certain dangerous, and secret matériel being proscribed of course)
I watch a lot of your vids and wish I could do the electronics you can do. This video cropped up today and I sent it to my dad. My dad was in the RAF most of the 60's and the early part of the 70's. He was a radio operator. I knew the moment I saw this video he would know a bit more about them. This is what he replied with. You want more info let me know. RAF Rescue launches were equipped with this equipment during the 1960s. Tuning the 1154 transmitter involved selecting a frequency on the 1155 receiver, locking down the morse key and fine tuning the transmitter to the frequency the receiver was set to watching the magic eye and the quality of the transmitter sound coming through the ear phones. Then click stop the transmitter to the frequency. Then send a morse message to controlling ATC asking the quality and strength of my signal. Qsa/qrk imi. . . _ _ . .
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER i could ask my gf, she may be able to tell. will post again if she tells me what it means before someone else posts it :D but on another sidenote, everything about taking aviation bits and turning them into instruments is awesome. do more! lol... :D
Brilliant! I just picked up a 1931 Model 6o Atwater Kent home radio - 192os and 193os Atwater Kent's are much simpler than the later 194os radios and even other brands. I'm planning on using it for my house up here in the boonies in the western US for music and radio reception - but as a musician you also got me thinking about making music. hmmmmm... Starting to get into synthesizers but my off grid house runs off solar, wind, and micro hydro so a lot of thought goes into how to run all the toys and tools :p --- I love what you do and the way you see the world, been following you for a few years now. "The Museum of Everything Else" sounds amazing - can't hardly wait to see it unfold. Cheers! Kody-In-Washington. ---- P.s. i've been a volunteer / employee at The Spark Museum of Electricity in my hometown of Bellingham since i was 16 - we have a 1927 RCA theremin that people can play, a 2nd Generation theremin signed by Bob Moog, and a lot of early small synths - Not an expert on Armstrong's Superoheterodyne, but it is a precursor to FM and kind of did away with regenerative circuits which produced a lot of noise and took a lot of knobs that kind of eluded the consumer's grasp -Superoheterodyne enabled the design and marketing of the "Radio Music Box" - making radio available to the layman rather than Amateur radio enthusiasts and engineers. looping the RF over and over again through the circuit to amplify, and probably clarify it like you said - there is a wonderful documentary about Armstrong and the invention of Superoheterodyne, and his war with the Scurrilous David Sarnoff of RCA who stole Armstrong's patents, and left Armstrong Penniless, a dark moment in the history of Invention.
I've always loved the strange sounds that radios can make. We used to go on holidays through Australia, where I live. And at various points we'd stop at some tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and I'd tune in my radio at the motel and listen to distant stations phasing in and out on their own, possibly influenced by weather conditions. There's something eerie and compelling about it, and somehow it portrayed a sense of how far we were from civilisation. That's an amazing looking radio too.
I know it's not really the same, but it reminds me of the time i was using a small FM radio in corfu and I found a channel that was an old man reading what sounded like prayers.
Try it on a cloudy/drizzly day and see if you get better reception, the radio waves bounce around the ionosphere when it's cloudy and so travel further
When I was a kid in the early 80s, my mate was a quite a second-world-war nut... we were once out playing on a local building site and we heard this distinctive womp-womp-womp-womp and said almost in unison "that sounds like a Lancaster" (I wasn't as much of a plane nerd as he was but I'd listened to his "sounds of WW2" album enough times). We looked up and it was indeed an Avro Lancaster flying right over our heads at quite low level. Which was kinda weird and had a hint of "has my Lego time-machine actually worked?" about it. 10 minutes later the red arrows flew over on the same low-level flight path, so there was obviously an airshow on somewhere near by. (RAF Fairford was just down the road) Cor you've got some of the loveliest old electronic junk I've ever seen. Tell you what... you should open a museum so that people can come and see some of these gorgeous objects. ;) That's got the best tuning-in "weee oooh wooh" that I've ever heard from a real life (Non fictional) radio... must be something about it's age??? Valves????? Are you oh shortwave???? Shortwave, these days, seems to be full of Chinese propaganda broadcasts... and not a lot else.
I like that he is unfazed by the dystopian messages coming through about economic collapse and staying indoors so 'we can get through this' ... he's just like 'whew! did you hear that cool phaser sound when I click this switch?.' I also need to make more time do some fun hobby stuff and take breaks from the chaos out there. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi mate this is a great video, I am a silent key radio ham but as a musician I do sample some of my old valve HF radio equipment, so many useable sounds, data modes etc, best wishes jamie.
Lego; airfix models, aircraft history - I resemble that remark lol. In my last year at junior school (1972 FWIW) we had to give a 5 minute speech to the class on any subject of our choice. Most kids chose something like 'my pets' or 'my interesting holiday' I chose 'Technical developments of the Spitfire and Hurricane from th Battle of Britain to the end of the war' ... Anyway, must get me soldering iron out and start building a synth seeing as I've got all this free time now.
Back when I was a kid we had an old tube radio the size of a mini fridge and that thing would grab radio signals all the way from Japan on a good clean summer night. Don't underestimate those old tube radios. They were born of a very different time, when the airwaves were quieter.
I think it's just amazing that you can listen to radio stations on the other side of the world. without the internet or any other infrastructure needed!
Every time I jump into the cockpit and fly it's kind of a thrill knowing I'm usuallu trusting my life to a glider that was manufactured in the 80's. The new ones are cool, but I will always have a soft spot for the Blanik considering it's what I got trained and certified in.
beautiful receiver. its a shame they dont make them like that any more, even the old home radios had amazing style, collins and hallicrafters radios. love the channel man, and love the music. cheers man
I have a copy of the service manual for the receiver and transmitter. I'm a member of RAF Waddington amateur radio club and we have a working receiver at the club. We also have a transmitter but I don't think that's working. They're very popular among radio amateurs and highly sought after. We had ours set up at a special event station we ran at a 40's weekend at Newark air museum back before covid
The metal gutter might be grounded, that could be why it didn't help. Also: Repairing and restoring these things is a massive undertaking. You might want to find a pro.
You could do fun bits with this at shows. At some point during the set (maybe to setup for the last song) you start receiving some sort of transmission through your vintage WWII era radio. It's a little hokey if you go the "A ghost pilot needs us to bring the house down!" route. But maybe you tune into some mid-40s big band and mix that into a finale.
honestly just the static and radio sounds that came out of it while you were fiddling with it were super trippy, like something you'd hear in the video game Oxenfree
This is great!!!! The first computer music was in I believe 1973... I may be wrong but my point is that They used an Altair 8080 computer and the program ran sitting on top of an AM radio... The computers interference played through a certain station and it was the "DAISY" song that we all know well cause its old as Moses himself... Good stuff man!!!! You have a powerful command of music and electronics!!!!!
So the serial numbers of those radios were given in groups to different manufacturers during WWII and beyond, however they were used randomly as to not let the enemy know how many were in service. The only real way to tell is to crack the case open and see if there is an inspection sticker on the inside or something to that degree as it would have had a prelim inspection before getting installed. As far as to how they hit the general market, when military stuff gets decommissioned, it generally has a lot of the equipment that is secretive removed and destroyed, then is lotted for sale at scrap/bulk value. Likely this would have been either removed from an aircraft by someone restoring / scrapping an aircraft or was a replacement / backup unit that got sold at auction.
Lots of RFI from switchmode power supplys and who knows what drowning the signals. Can be a big battle tracking down so you can have less noise blocking the stations.
It's got a weird connector on it... It's got hefty carry handles too. I think that someone who modded it into a "normal" radio in the past probably wanted to have a world receiver.
Hi Sam from New Zealand, you are a Master Sir. I have no musical training but love having some musical bits n bobs to experiment with. Would Love to see you jam with Vince Clarke one day. I was a teen in the 80's haha. Keep up the great work m8...🎹🎶🎵🎼🎛
The heterodyne oscillator is used to shift between frequency ranges by adding on or subtracting frequencies. It's also doing some stuff to do with filtering and modulation I believe.
Those were used for navigation on all of those brit airplanes in ww2. They were tied to some indicators and antennas, and let the crews know where they were and where they should gp, in bad weather and at night.
I'd be interested to know more about how these items got into the public's hands, what was the process? was there auctions or something when the planes got broken up? all the aluminium re used then the tougher to recycle things like the radio and such just sold off? or were they sort of sat in the skip in the back? does anyone know?
PS Im after its T1154 Counterpart, if you have one your looking to sell please hit me up. Obviously with these pieces of gear its more a conservation piece, because if you don't know im trying to build up enough of a hoard of curiosities to make a museum, but lets see how the heck that works out!
JUNE 2019 LIVESTREAM HIGHLIGHTS HERE :- th-cam.com/video/4PHILvhzNT8/w-d-xo.html
Government auctions can be weird things. Back in the early 90s, the University I attended placed a bid at a government auction for "Telescopes, 2 crates." They bid like $3000, sight unseen, hoping to get some optical telescopes for their astronomy class. Not much for 2 crates of telescopes, right? Anyway, they won the auction. And the crates turned out to be gigantic, and contained 2 radio telescopes that became the beginning of their radio astronomy program.
ther are lots of bits of panvair Tornado parts on fleabay right now, so yes when the planes go out of service they sell them off for scrap, unless there are other countries still operating the type- the parts are essentially worthless - accept maybee to collectors -enter enterprising ebay dealers
In the US post WW2 and Korea different surplus retailers would get surplus at auctions and sell in shops or mail order. Ham radio operators would buy and modify for thier use. Fair Radio still has a catalog, now it is online. In the US they passed a law they cannot surplus any more radios due to encription tech.
My grandfather fitted these in to the Lancaster bombers while he was in the RAF during the war. After the war he bought a few of them and refurbished them for household use. He even made his first television from a green radar screen in which the family watched the Queen's coronation. I have an earlier model than the one you have, sadly it's not working as one of the valves has blown and the capacitors are temperamental. After all, the life expectancy of these radios was the same as the crew, one mission. He advised me that they should be turned on regularly as they have a tendancy to malfunction if left for long periods of time. Sadly, I don't have the know how to get mine working, but I love it all the same. Your model I believe covers the tropical bands, 2300 - 2495, 3200 - 3400, and 4750 - 5060 kilohertz. I have a circuit diagram up in the loft, I'll scan it and send it to you when I dare to venture up there soon.
you should team up with mr carlsons lab. he fixes stuff like that all the time an shows it on youtube
Somewhere in Germany, HAINBACH is smiling
... And very calmy saying "bandpass filters".
this thing was part of another thing that flooded his local towns
8:22-8:27 I love how incredibly dystopian that looks and sounds! “Stay inside, alright?! We need to get through this-” coming through this WWII-era plane radio during the COVID-19 quarantine is eerie.
70 years ago they used Lancasters to bust dams. Today Sam uses Lancasters to bust out some tasty jams
Uncle Sam got the dams,
While Sam got to jam.
@@Hendrix4004 Bomber command got the dams 😜
At 8:22 isn't it eery? An ancient radio, barely working, and a voice emerges in the white noise to warn us: "Stay inside"
i got the creeps , apocalypse soundtrack Nice
Serendipitous timing there.
lol when " stay inside we need to get thru this " came out of it, it was very apocalyptic!!!!! fallout 4 radio :D
Definitely something that you'd find on a holotape.
Imagine that as a sample in some dirty-dark techno ! :)))
Well, we will have "Look Mum, A Plane!" channel instead, with you talking about old planes. It will be interesting as well.
that would be snazzy. im not really up on the history. but more the manufacturing processes. maybe ill run around RAF hendon one day visiting some of my faves haha.
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER the manufacturing processes would be really interesting. The history is covered by so many others.
Please build a full plane and make it play music
Duxford war museum is well worth a look. I was into the same things aged 10. Wanted to be in the Raf and then I found music 😂
@@static-audio duxford apprenticeship program was the dream
Hi Sam,
The HET switch (or BFO - Beat frequency oscillator) is used to listen to Morse code transmissions. Turning on the HET switch inserts another oscillator so that the CW (carrier Wave) of the Morse code can be heard. This is needed as CW transmissions are just a carrier wave with no modulation. In fact if you listen to Morse code without the BFO you will actually hear the background static get quieter when the carrier is keyed!
My two kids and I really enjoy your music and creations and I have even attempted building a version of your Arduino powered sequencer!
Stay safe and hope you are all ok in lockdown.
Don't sell yourself short on unlocking the mysteries of that there box. If anyone has a mind for it, it's you!
8:01 - Not 5G, rather just a Scottish guy in Glasgow playing the Bagpipes.
You're using that thing and one of the first things to come up is "Stay inside, we need to get through this".... Proper apocalypse man LOL
Those words were so juicy that I made a piece with them. soundcloud.com/juppe-417465060/pandemia-10 I haven't mixed this. This is just practice
My granduncle died in a Lancaster shot down over Holland in 1943. And I've been a fan of techno since first hearing the Tour de France 12" as a little kid back in '82. Which is all just to say, I've come to the right place. ✌️😎
There’s a brilliant shop here in Lincoln called J. Birkett’s that sells everything possible to do with radios and old aircraft and stuff. It’s an absolute Aladdin’s cave of dusty vintage headphones, dials, knobs, microphones, speakers, oscillators etc. etc. and I love it. It also has a model Lancaster that is not for sale and has been hanging from the ceiling since forever.
indeed! its been on my todo list to get there
My 'uncle' Jimmy was a pilot flying Lancaster bombers in WWII. He was a character who was riding round on a motorbike right up to his eighties...he probably used the same radio on his sorties...like your flight jacket.
this has to be the best thing ever. jammin beats off a lancaster bomber radio lol. love it man. i also grew up loving old ww2 planes
You can make music outta anything. It's magical.
We don't have the same hobbies, and are from opposite sides of the ocean. But I'm your brother from another mother. Grew up obsessed with dismantling anything and everything. I'd put it back together, often better than it was. Built models, with with hand-crafted dioramas. Love your vibe. Going to follow closely.
super cool.When I was a teen I was always coming back from the council tip with old valve recievers. Some worked.Some didn't but I learnt to repair some of them. I have been messing with a 70s Russian made reciever with a long ariel made with copper wire from an old ignition coil.
My old man was a flight engineer on Lancasters during WW the second. Not a radio operator, but maybe there was a chap in the same plane using one of these. He would probably have hated the music, but would have appreciated that someone is still using the stuff.
I recently uploaded a few videos on the Hallicrafters SX-25, came out around the same time as this one you have there, maybe little newer, but early 40's. thanks for the video! love it
If you’re looking for videos about this stuff, there’s a man on TH-cam who has literally many many hours of great info on these types of radio gear. He goes by the name MICROWAVE1
and he is about the business. I really have a high regard for this guy, since what he is doing is of value to people like me who don’t know what a command set is but I have desire to learn more. This is a great video, you’ve really made that radio into a decent instrument where perhaps not many people would have seen much promise there. THANKS AGAIN, COOL STUFF!!
LOOK MUM NO Mr Carlson's Lab
Broadcast radio uses AM (Amplitude Modulation) and the oscillator is there to allow you to listen to CW (Continuous Wave -- used to transmit Morse code) or DSB/SSB (Double Side Band / Single Side Band) which is a bit like AM but without a carrier wave. The oscillator replace the missing carrier to make the voice or the Morse code audible.
Our friend Hainbach will have a field day (and maybe feel a tidbit jealous) seeing you operating this vintage piece of equipment. Reminds me of my youth (in the faraway 50s) when I used to tinker and play with a big valve magic-eyed multiband SW radio (from the US Army surplus) trying to listen to world radio and propaganda programmes at night or create blips and bloops and whistling electro-acoustic tunes to the everlasting despair of the rest of the family.
I loved the planes when I was a little champ too. Went to airshows with my dad and had 3 page fold-out posters of planes floor to ceiling which came from some 'ring binder monthly collect' thing. Also couldn't afford airfix but used to buy the pre-built ones which were hanging from the model shop ceiling and paint them myself. Ahhh the model shop... I'm not sure why i'm telling everyone this. I blame isolation..
Really cool video. I too was obsessed with aviation history. My grandfather was a copilot in a B24 Liberator.
In an alternate reality there are some tricked out restored planes with built in synths right next to the airplane controls and the process of flying makes music.
It's amazing to watch you make music with just about anything you put your hands on. This has quickly become my favorite channel on TH-cam. Greetings from the US, coffee and white noise before work for the win.
I too was obsessed with aeronautics as a kid. Dad was in the Airforce and granddad was in WWII so I had a healthy obsession with early fighters. I built lots of models myself. Good times.
Hmm, never considered the impact that may have had on my now fascination with electronics and noise generating gizmos. Entertaining video.
Great to see someone of your age playing about with a radio especially one of these. Watch out for the high voltages inside they bite!!!
Nice to know you’re actually a fellow aviation enthusiast, ww2 is my main area of interest too for aviation
I still see the 10 year old you! I also share the same passion and mixture of vintage synths along with the era of aircraft you spoke about. It's hard to explain the feeling you get with the aircraft of that time to others around you. Im a pilot and my desire for flying stems from my love for airplanes from that decade.
After a cuple of hours you will get an Outa Space Signal XD "Look Mum No ALIEN"
The Type R1155L was used in Royal Air Force Coastal Command aircraft,utilising maritime radio frequencies as was the steel version the R1155N which was used in the RAF Air Sea Rescue launches.
Dude, Sam, I am envious, I'd love to own one of those! I live in the city in Canada that has the only other Lancaster Bomber that still flies, and I love her so much. I've even been out to see, and touch (I spent 45 minutes chatting with the curator and he let me, it was rad) what was the third (sadly decommissioned) Lancaster in New Zealand! I share your love of old planes, and I also love old ships. If you ever get a chance, come to the Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, or MOTAT in New Zealand!
I was obsessed by shortwave radios as a really young kid before I got near my brother’s Vox amp and started making non musical sounds with a cable that was unattached to anything, moved on to tape recorders and then synths. I’m mad jealous of this purchase, I cannot lie
That is so awesome. I once had a halicrafters tube world band radio. I've always thought about what I could do with those RF sounds in between channels. I grew up toying with radio shack kits. I'm surprised I'm not an EDM artist...lol Maybe your show will inspire me?
love it! Two of my favourite worlds collided in one lmnc video ❤️
That's pretty cool Sam. I saw there's a Spitfire museum just a few miles from your museum; bet you've been there a few times, no? I picked up something off eBay a while back with a 'magic eye' tube in it, think it was a Heathkit capacitor tester. I was going to fix up some old radios I got from an uncle. He had given me old Heathkit TX and Collins RX, but I just couldn't get around to recapping those old radios. I was a commuter pilot for about a year. Went to school, got a 4 year aviation degree, flew twin turboprops and then we had a recession. Went back to school for computer science. Like it better, more problem solving and that suits me better. I always like how you turn it into music somehow! Cheers :)
My father was WWII RAF Aircrew AG/Sigs Coastal Command, mostly Wimpies, later Libs and Electronic Warfare measures, so used this very model 1939 - '46 ...
I've actually sat in the wireless ops station on the Wimpy at Hendon (aged about 9 or 10, an engineer working on the craft saw my interest, and I was allowed aboard)
Mostly war surplus was auctioned off to all bidders at huge MOD warehouses (certain dangerous, and secret matériel being proscribed of course)
I watch a lot of your vids and wish I could do the electronics you can do.
This video cropped up today and I sent it to my dad. My dad was in the RAF most of the 60's and the early part of the 70's. He was a radio operator. I knew the moment I saw this video he would know a bit more about them. This is what he replied with. You want more info let me know.
RAF Rescue launches were equipped with this equipment during the 1960s. Tuning the 1154 transmitter involved selecting a frequency on the 1155 receiver, locking down the morse key and fine tuning the transmitter to the frequency the receiver was set to watching the magic eye and the quality of the transmitter sound coming through the ear phones. Then click stop the transmitter to the frequency.
Then send a morse message to controlling ATC asking the quality and strength of my signal. Qsa/qrk imi. . . _ _ . .
Love your work, please keep it up, tying to teach my son Elecronics this week and this so helps to get him enthused.
You are a star
7:30 Lmao getting Chinese Radio in England, what a legend
what does she say?
I NEED TO KNOW
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER i could ask my gf, she may be able to tell. will post again if she tells me what it means before someone else posts it :D but on another sidenote, everything about taking aviation bits and turning them into instruments is awesome. do more! lol... :D
@@SLiguykyle haha cool! trust me i would do more! however this era aviation equipment costs a pretty penny!
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER 7:32 經過一段時間艱苦努力艱苦努力，中國疫情防疫形勢持續向好
After a period of hard work, China method of combating covid-19 seems good for the moment
AMAZING VIDEO
Keep this videos about vintage stuffs going on !
There is an entire career of samples and fx in that box. Nice!
Them radio beats be sick! Really cool way to get unique sounds and an element of surprise into a jam sesh/performance.
Brilliant! I just picked up a 1931 Model 6o Atwater Kent home radio - 192os and 193os Atwater Kent's are much simpler than the later 194os radios and even other brands. I'm planning on using it for my house up here in the boonies in the western US for music and radio reception - but as a musician you also got me thinking about making music. hmmmmm... Starting to get into synthesizers but my off grid house runs off solar, wind, and micro hydro so a lot of thought goes into how to run all the toys and tools :p --- I love what you do and the way you see the world, been following you for a few years now. "The Museum of Everything Else" sounds amazing - can't hardly wait to see it unfold. Cheers! Kody-In-Washington. ---- P.s. i've been a volunteer / employee at The Spark Museum of Electricity in my hometown of Bellingham since i was 16 - we have a 1927 RCA theremin that people can play, a 2nd Generation theremin signed by Bob Moog, and a lot of early small synths - Not an expert on Armstrong's Superoheterodyne, but it is a precursor to FM and kind of did away with regenerative circuits which produced a lot of noise and took a lot of knobs that kind of eluded the consumer's grasp -Superoheterodyne enabled the design and marketing of the "Radio Music Box" - making radio available to the layman rather than Amateur radio enthusiasts and engineers. looping the RF over and over again through the circuit to amplify, and probably clarify it like you said - there is a wonderful documentary about Armstrong and the invention of Superoheterodyne, and his war with the Scurrilous David Sarnoff of RCA who stole Armstrong's patents, and left Armstrong Penniless, a dark moment in the history of Invention.
I've always loved the strange sounds that radios can make. We used to go on holidays through Australia, where I live. And at various points we'd stop at some tiny town in the middle of nowhere, and I'd tune in my radio at the motel and listen to distant stations phasing in and out on their own, possibly influenced by weather conditions. There's something eerie and compelling about it, and somehow it portrayed a sense of how far we were from civilisation. That's an amazing looking radio too.
I know it's not really the same, but it reminds me of the time i was using a small FM radio in corfu and I found a channel that was an old man reading what sounded like prayers.
Those old propeller engines are epic to witness starting up another cool engine that's fun to watch running is a hit and miss
The tuning sounds are amazing,!
Reminds me of being a kid playing with my mum's old CB radio 😂
Try it on a cloudy/drizzly day and see if you get better reception, the radio waves bounce around the ionosphere when it's cloudy and so travel further
Been watching loads of your stuff lately and ordered myself atari punk and baby 8 kits! Keep it up man!
nice!!! one of the RAKITS?
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER both RAKIT kits straight from ebay haha
Interesting use for an old R1155 receiver!
When I was a kid in the early 80s, my mate was a quite a second-world-war nut... we were once out playing on a local building site and we heard this distinctive womp-womp-womp-womp and said almost in unison "that sounds like a Lancaster" (I wasn't as much of a plane nerd as he was but I'd listened to his "sounds of WW2" album enough times). We looked up and it was indeed an Avro Lancaster flying right over our heads at quite low level. Which was kinda weird and had a hint of "has my Lego time-machine actually worked?" about it. 10 minutes later the red arrows flew over on the same low-level flight path, so there was obviously an airshow on somewhere near by. (RAF Fairford was just down the road)
Cor you've got some of the loveliest old electronic junk I've ever seen. Tell you what... you should open a museum so that people can come and see some of these gorgeous objects. ;)
That's got the best tuning-in "weee oooh wooh" that I've ever heard from a real life (Non fictional) radio... must be something about it's age??? Valves?????
Are you oh shortwave???? Shortwave, these days, seems to be full of Chinese propaganda broadcasts... and not a lot else.
This is so cool. I love the sound of it combined with the system you have made. You can scratch the airwaves!!!
It's really nice to see a young guy appreciating these old radios
NiCE BeAT EffECT! Nice history about R1155L, good work!
I like that he is unfazed by the dystopian messages coming through about economic collapse and staying indoors so 'we can get through this' ... he's just like 'whew! did you hear that cool phaser sound when I click this switch?.' I also need to make more time do some fun hobby stuff and take breaks from the chaos out there. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hi mate this is a great video, I am a silent key radio ham but as a musician I do sample some of my old valve HF radio equipment, so many useable sounds, data modes etc, best wishes jamie.
Lego; airfix models, aircraft history - I resemble that remark lol. In my last year at junior school (1972 FWIW) we had to give a 5 minute speech to the class on any subject of our choice. Most kids chose something like 'my pets' or 'my interesting holiday' I chose 'Technical developments of the Spitfire and Hurricane from th Battle of Britain to the end of the war' ... Anyway, must get me soldering iron out and start building a synth seeing as I've got all this free time now.
Luvin the Radio grooves you get going. Thanks for the upload great stuff
Back when I was a kid we had an old tube radio the size of a mini fridge and that thing would grab radio signals all the way from Japan on a good clean summer night. Don't underestimate those old tube radios. They were born of a very different time, when the airwaves were quieter.
I think it's just amazing that you can listen to radio stations on the other side of the world. without the internet or any other infrastructure needed!
Every time I jump into the cockpit and fly it's kind of a thrill knowing I'm usuallu trusting my life to a glider that was manufactured in the 80's. The new ones are cool, but I will always have a soft spot for the Blanik considering it's what I got trained and certified in.
Cool. I met a guy in the early 1960s whose dad had one of these in his garage in Coventry.
I've always wondered what the heck you write on your hands every time.... my favorite human youtuber! 👽
Hi, it was cool to see the digression of an electro-musician :) Thanks for sharing 📻
This is outrageous....made my day watching this
beautiful receiver. its a shame they dont make them like that any more, even the old home radios had amazing style, collins and hallicrafters radios. love the channel man, and love the music. cheers man
Gorgeous noisillator
One Hell Of A Short band Radio... Im Liking it . Night time Is The Best Time
Dude, it's so fucking crazy amazing thing that I've ever seeing or hearing, you are genius...
Nice to see you do something different than only insert the same electronics into everything 👍🏻
With flying jacket. Nice touch!
Hi Sam. the metal guttering may be grounding the signal if the piping goes down to ground. Interesting receiver. stay safe . . .
Thanks for another awesome video. I could happily sit and watch you talk about a toaster. Stay safe buddy :)
The PLL circuit came along and replaced the old oscillators. Really cool tuning sounds from the old oscillators.
Genius. I’m also impressed that you got executive-approval from the girlfriend to put down cable throughout the house
I have a copy of the service manual for the receiver and transmitter. I'm a member of RAF Waddington amateur radio club and we have a working receiver at the club. We also have a transmitter but I don't think that's working. They're very popular among radio amateurs and highly sought after. We had ours set up at a special event station we ran at a 40's weekend at Newark air museum back before covid
It's great to see more on this radio. And that music was awesome. You were getting shortwave.
some serious sampling opportunities there ! yeah, he struck gold allright !
The metal gutter might be grounded, that could be why it didn't help.
Also: Repairing and restoring these things is a massive undertaking. You might want to find a pro.
indeed! i only realised after how much of a plonker i was being!
its funny how much stuff you realise post shooting the video. but ohwell what you gunna do hahaha
@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Too bad you're not in the US, DLab Electronics (Terry) is a HAM that is always fixing old radios on youtube!
@Lassi Kinnunen This is also in another comment. Heinbach also has an electric accordion synth he could fix.
You could do fun bits with this at shows. At some point during the set (maybe to setup for the last song) you start receiving some sort of transmission through your vintage WWII era radio.
It's a little hokey if you go the "A ghost pilot needs us to bring the house down!" route. But maybe you tune into some mid-40s big band and mix that into a finale.
honestly just the static and radio sounds that came out of it while you were fiddling with it were super trippy, like something you'd hear in the video game Oxenfree
This is great!!!! The first computer music was in I believe 1973... I may be wrong but my point is that They used an Altair 8080 computer and the program ran sitting on top of an AM radio... The computers interference played through a certain station and it was the "DAISY" song that we all know well cause its old as Moses himself... Good stuff man!!!! You have a powerful command of music and electronics!!!!!
So the serial numbers of those radios were given in groups to different manufacturers during WWII and beyond, however they were used randomly as to not let the enemy know how many were in service. The only real way to tell is to crack the case open and see if there is an inspection sticker on the inside or something to that degree as it would have had a prelim inspection before getting installed. As far as to how they hit the general market, when military stuff gets decommissioned, it generally has a lot of the equipment that is secretive removed and destroyed, then is lotted for sale at scrap/bulk value. Likely this would have been either removed from an aircraft by someone restoring / scrapping an aircraft or was a replacement / backup unit that got sold at auction.
Love the VCA sequencing of the radio!
Future Amateur radio operator? Would be wild to see you and the DX Commander guy have a jam!
Lots of RFI from switchmode power supplys and who knows what drowning the signals. Can be a big battle tracking down so you can have less noise blocking the stations.
I have radio from PH -1941 Oklahoma , pulled from the oceans depth and it friggin works
It's got a weird connector on it... It's got hefty carry handles too. I think that someone who modded it into a "normal" radio in the past probably wanted to have a world receiver.
Sounds like Analog Worms Attack by Mr Oizo! Love it!
Hi Sam from New Zealand, you are a Master Sir. I have no musical training but love having some musical bits n bobs to experiment with. Would Love to see you jam with Vince Clarke one day. I was a teen in the 80's haha. Keep up the great work m8...🎹🎶🎵🎼🎛
Good to hear an reference to Savage Garden in this video. Hello from Brisbane, home of Savage Garden...
hahaha you know it! that is savage garden aint it?
The heterodyne oscillator is used to shift between frequency ranges by adding on or subtracting frequencies. It's also doing some stuff to do with filtering and modulation I believe.
Those were used for navigation on all of those brit airplanes in ww2. They were tied to some indicators and antennas, and let the crews know where they were and where they should gp, in bad weather and at night.
wow this radio and the video are almost as awesome as you (genius idea by the way to use the fence as antenna)
Nicely apocalyptic. "We will get through this".