I stumbled upon this in a batch of goodies I just got. Had not seen one in years. Even has the little antenna coupler still attached and working :-)
This neat little antenna will be handy when travelling, vacation, overnight fishing trips, etc. Stretch it out, slip the coupler over the collapsed antenna, and you're in business! Someone mentioned something similar is available from C-Crane.
Dave WB4IUY
This is a short video explaining how I clean tube pins and sockets. While restoring and/or repairing tube rigs, I've found dirty/bent tube pins and sockets to be one of the leading causes of receiver noise and intermittent operations.
Dave WB4IUY
Dave WB4IUY
These are such cool little monoband radios! I've had all of them...the -12 on 75m, the -22 on 40m, and the -32 on 20m. They'll do around 100w output, are fairly compact, and have a great receiver. They are phone only, but with selectable sideband, I'm sure a little work could easily drop these in the digital segment of the band for those modes. This unit was pretty clean, but I washed the PCB and cleaned it up, anyway. The tube sockets and tube pins got cleaned, a shorted tube was replaced, caps replaced, some resistors were replaced, an assembly issue with the rear power connector was corrected, and the receiver was DEAD. I found a damaged I.F. transformer, repaired a burned winding, and it came alive. An alignment was performed to get her at peak performance. Wow, amazing performance from a 60 year old radio. Here's a video and a few pics...
Dave WB4IUY
This is a President Lincoln 10 meter all-mode radio. These are often found on the CB band, but these are great little 10 meter rigs. The Uniden HR2510 is basically the same radio, but is only SSB & CW. This rig had a few problems, the first being it didn't work...there was noise from the speaker, and that was it. Turns out, the processor wasn't running on startup, and would take 3 to 5 minutes to start after power up.
This is a video of the initial checkout...
This is the processor board. The leaky caps are just above the top RH edge of the long processor chip that's close to my hand.
This is the bottom of the processor board. I've removed the bad caps and am prepping the board to install replacements.
This video explains the issues with the processor and what was done to repair it...
This video shows the issues with the transmitter, and what was done to repair it.
This video shows the final cleanup and operation. These are great little rigs, and are also a nice rig for portable CW/SSB operation. They're very stable, and will work FT8 with no problems. AM is always a blast up on 29.000-29.100, and FM simplex is fun on 29.600.
Dave WB4IUY