Hey Mike!! It's SUPER to see you back!! 13 videos for us to binge watch!! Or do we space them out and savor them like an educational wine?! Either way, WE MISSED YOU, BROTHER!!!! Welcome back!! Norman in Montreal
Could you please do a video on making a band pass filter for those DDS VFO's as I would love to be able to follow a DIY guide so I could be sure that the ones I have, have something like that between them and my radios.
That HF content looks like no lowpass filtering was used at all. Being the output of a DAC means they aren't optional. The circuits in the datasheet for any DDS I've seen do much better than that.
I don't know, I don't use them. I don't think they make them anymore so you would have to find either a used one of one from someone that has old stock.
Love Mike! and the presentation is 100 % !! BUT ! I am utterly perplexed. These people/ customers contacted Mike to send a radio to him for service right ?? !! How ? No one knows how to contact him😢 I have two Radio's needing recapping and alignment to factory spec . No one on this planet knows how to get in contact with him. Major bummer .
Good to see you back making great videos again. But Mike a have a question!!!!! When are you going to start your Electronics course, or have I missed something???
I thought it would not be worth trying to get more channels on a 23 channel radio in the first place. Ok if you could do it yourself, but to pay someone to do it! Nah, the radio is to old, there is bound to be a channel processor that could get 40 channels a lot easier than that out there. Maybe not though as that would be an old radio by anyone's perspective. Maybe it is a good radio for its day, I hove no idea as we never had AM over here (well we did, but it was already 40 channels and also illegal over here to use) but use them we did. It was only under pressure of using AM radios that we got FM 40 channels, but it was higher up the 27Mhz band and 40 channels in straight steps. Also it was in between everyone else's channels (Legal or otherwise) so it was a bit stupid, but so is our government. Now we have a lot more freedom, but there is not a lot of people still around here on CB, down south, maybe, but only a few truckers/farmers, but it left a right mess as we can work American FM channels as well as the old ones and European ones, so it is a right mess. Just like that radio!!! I would have left it on 23 channels, but there might be bits missing and god knows what else done to it, POOR RADIO, it didn't ask for this to be done to it!
Oh no, I think you just messed up the Black Hole articulation transmission gurfid. This radio was so ET could phone home. Now Darth Vader will bring the zombie apocalypse down on you
I've used some VFO's in my day, but I've never used that brand. My question is, why such a big box for no more than is in the inside. Just looks like a waste to me, unless you have something you want to hide inside.
QUESTION.... You show that home made DDS. All the ones I see need some low pass filtering and datasheets show it. I did not seem to see any surface mount components for this. Is it there? Is it on other side of board? To be honest not sure it would help though. 73's
I have a few radios for you to work on if your interested with some really kooky problems I like the work you do and all the proper equipment you have, not many technological techs out there anymore. Any way I can contact you
I had a Ford F-150 I had my Lincoln in it brand new and I had a paper machine a stool in the front seat I had to slam on the brakes and it broke the crystal in it I was so pissed
Maybe Mike or anyone out there going to answer my question about asttic microphones. I have had them in the past years ago they are super great microphones now they build a handheld power mic is the biggest piece of plastic garbage I've ever seen the switches keep going bad into him I have a friend that can work on them but now he's getting tired of working on them he's having a hard time getting switches for them just recently I've been starting to send them back to the company to get repaired they give me brand new ones they work for 3 weeks two two months and I'm sending them back again for repair all they do is recycle old to new what the hell happened that microphone company please somebody lend me an ear thanks
I restore a lot of vintage microphones and I don't think I have ever replaced a switch in a Astatic microphone. I have several Astatic 575-M6 microphones and they all have the original switches in them and work flawlessly. Only thing they usually need after 20 to 30 years is the electrolytic capacitors replaced.
@@mikesradiorepair it's the newer ones they've been making they don't make the silver eagles no more or the gray bottom based ones the black ones it's like the old Minuteman twos handheld power mics.
They have not made lollipop microphones for a long time. The modern microphones are not "really" Astatic. They got bought out years ago by Road Pro if memory serves correctly. Just find a old vintage Astatic, restore it and enjoy it for the next 30 years or so. Just like the old Turner microphones, they seem to last forever.
@@mikesradiorepair that's what I've been seeing in figuring out in my head lately. I see so many of them on the Internet for sale and then sometimes I hear horror stories about them how people be getting ripped off kind of afraid to take the chance but in order to take a chance and Hope and pray did I get a good one I think I'm ready to put my towel under the water and give it a shot thanks for the info thanks for the help I probably will be having more and more questions for you in the very near future cuz I have lots of them thanks for your time.
Mike, I have a question unrelated to the video. How much would it cost me for you to tune my radio as well as unlock the clarifier. Also how long would I be without my radio? Thanks for your time!
Mike: A question if I may. Have you done anything with your RCA Co-Pilot 14T-302 SSB CB radio? I have the same model and would LOVE to see a video of you working on one!! I could never hope to do what you do until I take your electronics course!! I can't wait!! I've seen your video of you working on another RCA CB and your insights leave me in AWE. I hope you answer this, even a short one would be great!! Thanks in advance, 73 & MUCH respect, your fan, Norman in Montreal.
Thanks for rekindling my love for CB radio. Here are a few of the imports etc that I had in the heyday of CB here in the UK. Old cb radios owned since 1980. Black box exports: Sharp 2460 AM 40 channel Colt 444 120 Channel Cobra 148GTL DX 120 AM,FM,USB,LSB MK1 Ham international Jumbo 120 channel Homebase Mk1 Ham international multimode II HAM international Concord II Superstar 360 NATO 2000 Colt Excalibur 120 channel Homebase Tristar 747 Tristar 777 Hy gain V Uk legal 1981 radios: Amstrad 901 40 channel Uniden Uniace 200 Harvard 420M Rotel Rvc 240m Harrier CBX York JCB 863 Audioline 341 Thanks for the great content, back to EBay searching for some of my old loves.
Well I am sure that DDS is Chinese and we all know that quality control cost a lot of money because that is labor intensive to check each widget! Surely that DDS is not behaving as it should.
