tstahlfsu voting by mail and absentee ballots are two very different things. But one side in this argument is clearly not bright enough to understand that concept.
I just wanted to post a thanks to those who wished my wonderful wife well in her battle with cancer. The day before yesterday, cancer won the battle, and I am in the process of planning her funeral. We were together as man and wife for over 51 years. In fact it was 51 years and 4 days. My heart is broken in a billion pieces, but I come here for these wonderful videos to take my mind off the horror of this terrible fight with the evil that is cancer. I will bury the love of my life on Tuesday, I am going against her final wish to be cremated and planning a christian burrial in a fine casket, a well built vault and all that goes with that. Her only reason for wanting the cremation was cost, and granted it is costing over ten thousand dollars more for full funeral then for simple cremation but I think she was worth every cent I am spending.
I have no words but to say My deepest condolences. For no words seemed to sooth my aching heart after losing my wife 2 years back. Wise choice to bury rather than cremation. Now you have a place to grieve. Be well.
...my sincerest condolences...I'm 62 and dread the day when I lose my significant other, my girl and I have only been together for 6 yrs, I was married to another for 20 yrs and it will be heartbreaking to lose my girl and my x who is the mother of my two sons....I guess we'll all cross that bridge one day.😢
This Zenith rocks! sounds amazing! Many of us are waiting to watch any new video you upload, and if you read the comments i would like you to know that you are really loved around the world, and for me personally it will be a real honor to meet you one day.
I moved to Sacramento like one month before 9/11 2001 (just incidentally) and yard sale shopped for most things, found a Zenith Circle of Sound and paid $1 for it, still have it and it just works great! while in Sac I'd tune in Davis KDVS and that was my entertainment... about 3 years later I found another Circle of Sound at the SPCA thrift store for $5 and it worked for a while, blew a wax cap up all over the board, and I threw it away. . . sure wish I'd have kept that to fix. What kept me going? Great Radio. Great Radio and bongloads.
Shango, Excellent job as always. I have several of those Zenith, tube and transistor radios, and yes, like you, I repair them. Thanks for the video, It open up an avenue about a problem I'm having with an early 60's T-O 3000-1, that was performing beautifully, then just died, and went completely silent on all bands. Thanks again!!!
Nice sounding, and yet another well explained repair. I had a small transonic 7 transistor I would feed the audio from the detector diode into a mono tube tape recorder. It was when WBZ Boston played top 40 radio. It sounded incredible.
Concerning the nausea thing, I started watching your videos a few months ago and couldn't stand the motion. It would make my stomach sick. But now I got used to it and it doesn't bother me anymore, nausea is a thing of the past! I am cured!
I have several of these Zenith Royal 2000's. Beautifully made and a great performer. Interesting about changing the sound of the radio. You changed the sound of the radio to the way you like it to sound. I believe people purchased the radio for the way Zenith designed it and the way it sounded. I like the way it sounds as designed. Nice, simple, easy modification, though; if that is the way you like it to sound. Zenith, The Royalty of Radios.
Great video as always. I've been getting into collecting vintage transistor radios especially early American made ones and my rule of thumb is if I see an ITI or Nashville capacitor, I automatically change it. They are almost always bad and I can count the number of good ones I've come across on my fingers and still have fingers left over. For the Japanese radios, same rule applies if I come across the plastic blue or green caps made by Sanyo.
That looks to be a good schematic as it has the values of the capacitors in the cans. Great video, great catch on an odd problem. Your fix does make the most logical sense really.
I quit smoking in 1993, my wife quit in 1973. Dad quit smoking in 1973 when he died. My eldest sister quit smoking in 2010, she died last year of cancer. My younger sister never quit smoking, she died last year, my doctor who reviewed my chest X-Ray says my lungs look as though I never smoked. My wife had strong lungs, but a hereditary cancer took her life last week. Guess you don't need to smoke to get cancer but it sure helps.
Sniffers delight! Spicy tobacco smell. Very nice retro smelly cigarette radio. Good work getting to make it receive once again Shango. You're the best.Shalom.
I remember When I was a teenager back in the 80’s, I would drive up to Chantry Flats/Santa Anita Canyon to one of the overlooks and listen to 91X. Amazing that the station is still on air as of the date of this show.
It,s so awesome how u have this zenith radio working nicely,,,after replacing a few capacitors and diodes,,,very interesting how u had got the am band working,,,and receiving distant stations on fm,,,i love the classic music,,,Daryl hall and John oats,,,one of my favourites. And you still have channel 6,,,analog tv reception on fm? I miss the analog tv,,,we used to get that here in Australia. All digital stuff now.
Sort of. But a transistor radio really is a current dependent device and a tube radio depends more on voltages.If you draw a block diagram of either they then look the same!
@@hestheMaster You are correct of course. It is only the mechanical construction, with a sheet metal chassis with sockets (here for transistors instead of tubes) and point-to-point wiring on the underside that is identical to earlier tube designs. It is only a few circuitry traits that were carried over to tranistors for some time, like using output transformers instead of directly driving the loudspeaker like it is done today.
very nice... Its so wonderful entertaining to see you working. It is a good motivation to go in the laboratory, too. The diode is in the can because a demodulator basicly can generate harmonics on higher frequencies that can cause noise and other problems, if this is coupled into the front end. To built the diode in the can, too, minimizes the risk of that... with the difficulties to service this. This problem ist to find in TV-Sets, too. In my experience, schottkys like BAT41 do very well up to 40MHz (video detector). Your decision to let the defective diode in the can is absolutely understandable, but keep in mind, that the defective diode has that faulty 1,4V in both directions, that means (for me), if the kathode-side of the detector was open (was it ?) the defective diode leaks in the blocking direction, in this position you have to measure "oo" resistance or overflow in the diode test-mode. If the defective diode is leaking, the demodulation will not do well, but it do well as your results show. ... In a lazy situation I (!) would try to open the can... But to let it be is the other decision, that is equally good in this situation. Very good work as always !!
I bought one of these 20 years ago- fixed it by replacing three caps with porous ceramic cases branded "Nashville" that must have dried out. Us VHF-UHF DXers refer to your 91X reception as "Tropospheric refraction". It doesn't skip off the ionosphere, rather, 91X's signal follows the boundary between humid cool air (speed of radio waves less than c) and drier warm air (speed of radio wave almost equal to c).
it's interesting how an abrupt change in the dielectric constant of the air versus altitude has such a profound effect on VHF and UHF radio propagation to the point where the signals can get so extremely strong even though they're coming from hundreds of miles away
@@1L6E6VHF I don't doubt that, I've heard western Australian FM radio and UHF CB come through when I was still in South Australia. That's over 2,000km away
The thing is my mother died at the age of only 51 and she never smoked in her life, my grandad smoked since the age of 15 and lived to be 86, when your time is up it is up, no matter what you do, i know of athletes who were the pinnacle of fitness die in their mid 20's. i say do whatever makes you happy and let no one dictate to you how you should live your life, it no ones business what you do really. but ill chainsmoke and you drive a sportscar at stupid speeds around town with no seatbelt whilst talking on your mobile phone lets see who dies first. the goal in life is not to live forever, but create something that does.
Problem is a Smoker and their habit affects other people who do not wish to smell or endure the effects of the smoke. Do what you want but if it affects others then you have no right. And the nicotine ruins everything around it. Smokers are air polluters. Its a stinking filthy habit no matter how you wanna word it.
@@steve732 Well seeing as smoking is banned in every pub and workplace no non smoker needs to breathe it in. this isnt the 1960s and shangos "smokers specials in flavour country" videos are his best ones.
I added a small flat paper cone tweeter that floats in front of the main speaker, the original speaker is limited above 7khz. Just the nature of a paper cone with a felt dust cap. I can send you one of these tweeters to put in yours if you like. It’s a 6 ohm job, a small coupling cap is all that is needed for a gentle high pass filter.
Shango, I live in R.I. and except for social media, I never see any of these great antiques and retros TVs or radio's in the trash or recycle bin...maybe I'm not looking very hard, I've been following your channel here for almost a year and just subbed. Btw.....if you have anything you would want to sell " not repaired" I am a 40 yr vet of the TV and appliance bizz...I got out about 4 yrs ago, but, will be getting back into the restoration area when I retire in a couple yrs. Best wishes. Frank.
@@tony--james ...btw, I have joined a couple of those vintage TV and radio clubs on FB just in the last few weeks, so we'll see how it goes. Thanks again buddy.!
I bet this was in a house with a pipe (or cigar) smoker. My Grandfather was a pipe smoker. I can imagine what you are smelling. I got that same smell every time we would visit my grandparents house. Fond memories.
That thing sounds amazing, shame about the IF cans though, they will eventually go bad and it's a REAL ZENITH radio "The quality goes in before the name goes on!", also "Crackle pony master play" it brings me great joy and you made my night!
Also just got my new test LCD monitor/TV for my test bench for free from the trash, plastic front bezel is cracked but it has RF and Composite and Component, S-Video, VGA and two HDMI ports (previous one didn't have HDMI this is nice!), and is small enough to wall mount, go figure one dies and A WEEK later I find it's replacement! :) It's a Philips which I am getting rid of the Phi in front in honor of Jan Beta!
First comment. That's a first for me... I am really glad, parcel service-vise, to live in Europe. Shipping times rarely exceed one week "coast to coast". I live in Germany, and here a parcel up to 30 pounds takes less than 24 hours to deliver and costs under $10...
We didn't have Zenith in the UK, this looks super quality, like a valve radio chassis in miniature. I suppose our british equivalent would be Dynatron or Hacker, serious money until the Hong Kong imports drove them all out of business
You don't need a cameraman and a makeup artist. Just a tripod with a cellphone mount will do. Both radios deserve restoration. The variable induction tuning alone makes them rare and worth the effort.
7:30 - Sounds like a nice Perique blend pipe tobacco... A MAN OF TASTE AND DISTINCTION. Gorgeous radio, damn good smoke. But like, that's just my opinion, man...
One time recently, priority mail took a whole week. Today, the package was on time. Go figure. Another interesting video! I assume the detector diode was called a catwhisker in crystal sets?
Shout out to Shango066 for keeping me entertained during the lockdown and my subsequent job loss, and for giving us an alternative to watching the news with all it's negative political crap. It's just that the nicotine rants always make we want to go outside for a butt.
IIn 1986 I made a list of everyone in my family that I had known personally, who had died. Everyone who had used tobacco, in any form had died of causes that could be directly traced to the tobacco. I quit for that reason. At this point, I have outlived every one of them.
More circuit mods especially on the older radios might be something you could do more of. I wonder if it's feasible to take an old tube TV and double up the audio circuit with spare dupe parts and use the added circuit to amplify the stereo sub-carrier and convert an old mono TV to stereo. It would require designing or finding an analog demod circuit and putting on small board and interfacing with the old stuff.
There's a good website out there that has live maps of tropospheric ducting of 2 Metres, 70cm etc.. You just key in your location and it shows what the current and expected conditions are.
I have a mid 1955 Zenith Royal portable transistor radio that I restored. The radio has first generation germanium transistors in sockets. I replaced the electrolytics and checked all the tranistors and did an IF alignment. The radio was listenable but still had a bit of distortion which still annoyed me. After checking all the voltages and connections, I just kind of gave up figuring that since it was the first transistor that Zenith came out with, perhaps this was considered acceptable at the time.
Good performing radio, especially when you cut out that yellow cap on FM. In my town, during a period of shutdown, the newspaper lost a lot of revenue due to lack of advertising. So they went to publishing the paper 2 days a week, a physical newspaper. All subscribers could go online and access the digital daily version, whether it be text based or an actual PDF-type copy of the paper that would like the real thing. I get the two papers per week mailed to me as they no longer have any carriers. While I can access the online paper for free, you still can't beat sitting in your recliner with a real newspaper in your hands.
What's the original purpose of the capacitor that you snipped to brighten up the sound? I'm wondering if the transoceanic 3000 has a similar capacitor.
Silver mica caps are NOT limited to Zenith. GE especially had it also. IIRC Automatic Radio built most of these transformers. So after 55 years this radio will outperform almost anything else. Build quality is over the top even back then. When the Zenith engineers put this together nobody knew or cared that this problem would come up 30+ yrs later. Not ragging on you Shango, just setting the record straight. And yes I am a Zenith apologist. LFOD !
I will probably fix my 1939 Philco console AA5 but it has the block caps and it looks like hell (photo finish) I would MODIFY IT to have aux input and bluetooth but running from the original tube amp circuit, and awesome AM and SW radio maybe it'd be a good candidate for that since it was a "cheap" radio from back then but an excellent design! I would keep the radio circuit but add aux input just like they did back then for a turntable :) I could make it TRI function, radio, bluetooth speaker and guitar amp just adding different parts lol I LOVE tube stuff it's awesome!
Adding guitar amp stuff in the back of it able to delete it running from preamp to output if you wanted it just as a radio it's pretty easy with an AA5 to do this and it can be taken out just as easy, aux jack mod is very easy too! :) AA5 is a nice AM radio with a nice single ended amplifier! :)
7:40 " I hope that you got a good visual image and experience with that." And now we all stick our faces into an ashtray full of butts and get the rest experience too XD
Change, I have a Magnavox record player thats from 1962 and its transistorized, I want to replace the transistors but I looked up the numbers on them nd cant find new ones? ifs post the numbers can you help me out?
