This is a cool Sony tape deck I got from a friend. It was physically in good shape, but needed some operational maintenance. I cleaned the head, lubricated everything, and replaced a old drive belt. She's back in operation, and good for many years to come!
More tower work, back in March. These vultures are pushing my buttons.... I have some LOUD piezo sounders I'm planning to connect to a motion detector, and see if that deters those turkey-sized antenna wreckers... While I was at it, I also swapped out the rotator assembly and recalibrated it.
This is an old receive preamp and preselector I got from the estate of a friend's dad. It looks like a possible handbook project from years ago, based on the complexity of the circuit, but I don't know for sure. It uses a 6U8 in the rf stage, and has some sort of mute circuit using half of a 12AU7A.
It was very well built. I replaced the tubes and a bad cap, and use it ahead of my old Ameco Shortwave radio. Here's a few pics...
Sometimes, a simple fix manages to evade me :-) I was in Studio A, keyboard and mouse too far to the left to suit me, and thought: "Why is this?"... The light bulb in my head illuminated dimly, and I wondered if I could extend the cables. Well darn, both devices are USB, so I ran out to the shop and sifted through my USB cable inventory. Sure enough, I had some 18" USB extensions. I popped a couple of them in line, and all is well. Now I have everything in a comfortable location.
This is a Yaesu FT-101ZD a friend wanted me to restore for him. It was an eBay purchase, I'm wondering how well it might have been described... Poorly packed for shipping, the case was bent, bottom feet broken and shoved up into it, broken switches, and a bent vfo shaft. To top it off, it looks to have been wet... a WHILE. People with toss a 50lb radio in a box with a few peanuts and call it "ready to ship". What a mess... I guess I'll start on the cosmetics, first...
