Hey Brad, Their slogan, 'From sharp minds, comes Sharp Electronics, at least back in the day. They do make very nice equipment, calculators. I bet Techmoan on YT would like to get one of those. Be good, C.
It really pisses me off there is no TV signal here in UK. I think your baby agrees. He /She has good taste! I got one of these and the sound is high quality and deep.Video games and VHS play great but you need a magnifying glass. Back in the seventies people had superman vision. Funny how we just don't put up with such small screens but are happy with smart phones. People are weird. EDIT. You deserve WAY more views, Sir.
I had one very similar, I recall it went through batteries like crazy when you tried to watch TV. Mine took eight D cells which lasted about 30 minutes watching TV. I sure do miss analog TV, it was a lot easier to pick up stations. I believe the beat switch was for recording a.m. radio, it would cancel certain noises.
I've love this old stuff, this older video set me off on a rant, it's been awhile since I've tinkered or shocked myself good, basically my electronics consists of acquiring the digging into working electronics by basically touching one wire to other wires till ish works, but in my humble experiences, the more the number of big batteries the better the portable cassette radios sound with perferably 2 or more bigger speakers, and or extension speaker outs, can really equate killer overdriven guitar tones, when you spice a guitar into them, by way of eight to quarter inch input jack adapter or by just switching out that inputs 1/8 inch plug to a 1/4 inch guitar cable sized plug, by reaming the input jacks hole in the plastic case, then any cassette player as a hacked guitar amp if you open it up and disconnected the tape heads the soldered a 1/4 guitar plug to the tape head wires, better yet get a old portable eight track tape player with geranium transistors which sound especially good. and then there's all the old tube am radio guitar project stuff where you can ground one of guitar female input jacks wires, and then solder the other wire to the volume pot. As a broke audiophile obsessive teenager phase, I had a crazy guitar amp array with reel to reel player hooked to Hi Fi Panasonic tube receiver that had a surround sound panning toggle switch hooked to tower speakers surrounding the room, later I had an array of daisy chained hacked into bom boxes preamps spread out for natural delay. Graduating to cannabalizing and chasing back all the wires to the rotary speed controls and other involved switches for those retulangular Yamaha organ rotary horns, later I lucked into aquiring a pair of Leslie speaker that fires into rotating drum baffles, I got one in a free organ I found abandoned on the side of the road, then wheeled off home on two shake boards, and there really are nice tube amps in them old 60's 70's organs, eventually I had a crazy electronic mumble jumble apparatus set up at home, but then I went against my Hermit like nature, by eventually putting my rotary speakers into portable cabinets for traveling out of my house into the worlds jam spots! 20 years later, I still have those fours now seldom used rotary in storage, I should dust me, and them all off and set them back up and make my own RU-vids to show you guys a special gem, rather then tell about it, yet admittedly we had much difficulties in ever really capturing spacial breath like live rotary wash effects on analog recordings, much less catching the modulation vibes compressed digitally of 4 tube driven analog rotarys spinning together, set up with one cabinet placed on a stand in each corner, in a arrangement consisting of the two home brew Leslie's drums rotating, with one spinning vertically slow in the North corner and one in the south corner spinning fast horizontally, and then two of the Yamaha rotary horns in each corner one vertically spinning fast in the west corner and the other spinning slow horizontally in the east, guitar tones washing around the room, albiet unfortunately all 4 cabinets are controlled by their own separate individual cabinets speed controls and so not connected with combined on off /start stop/ slow down speed up controls, which was an issue the a/b switch couldn't really ever solve. Enough already I gave y'all some gems here, and you'll have to agree all this does sound very Deranged?...LoL...8)
The "Beat" switch changes the frequency of the erase/bias generator for the cassette. When recording from the radio or TV, depending on the received frequency, that generator may cause interference (squealing or beeping noises). In this case, you'd flip the "Beat" switch to the other position which would, hopefully, end the noise. For the "Sleep" function: I'm not familiar with this particular machine, but it usually re-routes the power through the "Play" button of the cassette. The idea is that you tune a station, hit "Play" and go to bed. When the tape reaches the end, the auto stop function of the mechanism cuts the power. A rudimentary timer. Depending on the cassette, you may have between 15 and 45 minutes of background radio or TV to put you to sleep.
Thanks, it was good to remines again, I had the same model in 79. Brought it in NYC on 42st and Broadway when it was adult and Kung-Fu theaters and prostitutes'. I was 14 years old.
OK. I got one too and I love it. How do you hook it up to an older Laptop running XP? What product is available to convert DMA or TV output to AV input? Preferably something small and cheap(ish). It works perfectly with my freeview box but want it to connect easily to my Laptop or PC running XP. Thank you.
So since you’ve got this working figured I’d ask as I’ve just found this in the attic. Do I literally take a coaxial cable and plug that into the Sharp and then just any old freeview box? That’s not gonna ruin this vintage piece of kit?
@@SoulShaper12 Hello. No.It will not damage it. The RF input is just a signal. There is no current running down it. Can use a VCR or Playstation, anything with anRF output. The best TV Boombox to get is the HITACHI CKP - 100 TRIMODE PORTABLE COMBINATION. That is a really excellent colour TV but the SHARP is a better Boombox for audio quality. If you find one buy it if you can afford it.. They are getting very rare.
@@taketimeout2share Sound thank you so much for notifying me! I've got it sitting in front me right now as I've got it from the attic! Might go back to find my Playstation and see if I can get it all going!
@@taketimeout2share Playstation is pretty damaged so been looking at how to get it to take HDMI, working on a solution but will update when I have one!
