@@12voltvids yea you did say on the video the original audio is better sounds more natural with the camera mic with the new mic it's as if the voice is right at you, appreciate your videos and time you put in to make them either way.
It's nice your restoring your grandma's radio .My grandma and grandpa had a transistor radio above there refrigerator in Chicago when they were living . I believe it was a zenith radio . They listened to conservative radio stations.
This one has been on the back burner for many years. I'm actually listening to it now and I think I will leave the batteries in and use it to listen to talk radio on. It has great sound. I looked at it about 7 years ago and cleaned the volume control but didn't do a restore then. Now its fully restored and fully functional. An external antenna can be plugged in too so it should be pretty sensitive.
I see that this radio has CONELRAD markings on its dial, which was a Cold War-era radio alert system here in the states, intended to warn people of incoming Soviet nuclear bombers. Seems rather odd to me that Sony didn't leave those dial markings off when they exported this receiver to Canada. A lovely little heirloom! At least it didn't have those dreaded wax paper caps.
Sony wasn't even in canada at this time. It was Gendis. That was short for general distributors of Canada. Started by the Cohen Brothers back in early 60s and one of the products they imported was Sony electronics. Gendis became Sony of Canada. So this was likely an American radio imported into Canada. I don't obviously know where it came from. This was made the year I was born. I remember it from when I was a little kid, as far back as I can remember. I remember sitting at the kitchen table listening to country music on it and I would tune it down to the rock and roll station to hear the Beatles or rolling stones and getting my hand slapped with a wooden spoon. Lol. Different times. Today if you shake your fist at your kid and say do that again and ill knock you into tomorrow and you'll be getting a visit from social workers and your kids going into foster care. Back in my day the belt hanging over the bedroom door was a deterrent and if it wasn't the sting of it across a bare ass was. Lol. That kept us all in line, got an education and went to work. Now I can hear it now, I was abused. No I wasn't. Did I get my ass whipped a few times, sure and I also got the pointer at school across my knuckles for talking in class. Several of my friends got the strap at school. Yes they still did that.
@@12voltvids Apparently, I mistakenly thought by the early 1960's that Sony import divisions were everywhere, *especially* Canada. Sony *certainly* made a quality product in those days, as demonstrated by the heirloom in your possession. You make a very interesting, albeit subjectively accurate, account of how things were in my own childhood (I'm 64), as well. Attaching *consequences* to, (and being held accountable for) inappropriate behavior in childhood seems to be sorely deficient in the upbringing of today's children, and society will inevitably reap the whirlwind because of this as they eventually advance into adulthood.
Almost as old as I am. Back in those days "transistor count" was a big deal and many manufacturers just used some as diodes and some not even in circuit. 6 transistors was enough for a well performing AM superhet (unless an RF stage was added).
"SWEET" Thanks Dave. I remember My Moms Mother always listening to a kitchen Radio and too would listen for the WOKY Cash call. And she did win one or more.. Grandpa also had one in the front room of the Rabbit barn. and as a 10 year old I wired the Radio to 4 Speakers out in the barn area. 24x80 I think it was. With the Radio playing 24/7 the Rabbits were not so spooked by entering the Barn. That old Radio I think still works. HAHAHAH.
I won 1040 from am 1040. They made a random phone call and all you had to say was 1040 kicks butt when you answered. One day back in 80s when I was working at the shop I went home for lunch. I just had got in the door and the phone rang. I wasn't expecting any calls so I said the phrase that pays and got the bell ringing and all the winning music. They took my name and told me where to pick up my cheque. They then played the call on the radio when the song ended. I told the guys at work and they didn't believe me. Boss wouldn't let me have time off work to get they cheque so I called in sick and he docked me a days pay. The next day I showed up and showed him the cheque and told him I was planning to share it but because I got docked a day, I wasn't sharing a penny. Back then I wasn't being paid much. Probably only about 11 bucks an hour so a days pay was about 90 bucks. That was a fair trade for 1040.
Very relatable! I have an old Sony separate stack system from the very early 80s, complete with the wooden cabinet with the glass door. It was my granddad's pride and joy up until his passing in 1988, and my grandma held onto it until she died in 2007, at which point I rescued it before the house was sold. I can remember it from my childhood, always wanting to play records and tapes on it when we visited, but any such tinkering was usually supervised by granddad, just in case I tried messing with the tone settings! A few years ago I gave it the full restoration treatment - a good clean up inside and out, replaced the tape drive belts, swapped out the blown tuner backlight bulbs for LEDs, a liberal dose of contact cleaner for the switches, that kind of thing. It looks as good as when it left the factory. It occupies a lot of space and is hopelessly obsolete as a stereo by today's standards, but I'd never part with it.
Not related to this vid but do you repair old camcorders? Specifically Sony CCD-TR71? Fired it up after 20 years to try to convert 10 years worth of 8mm tapes and got that ‘fishy’ smell after about 10 minutes. From some of your other vids I’m figuring it’s a capacitor problem. TIA.
It will have bad caps. Generally not worth fixing. Some cameras only have a few others can have over 60. I digitize tapes and that would be a better use of your money that trying to fix an old camcorder. Or find a more modern one. The late 90a models and all the digital 8 don't have the cap issues. If looking at digital 8 make sure you select a model that supports analog playback. All the earlier digital 8 did then they dropped it on a few low end models.
@@12voltvids Thank you, I appreciate your expertise and advice. Also, glad I found your CZcams channel looking for this issue, enjoying some of your vids!
I noticed 1614 kHz on the end of dial that's strange as it should say 1620 kHz. If you live in countries with 9 kHz tuning 1614 kHz would not be used 1602 kHz would be the last one. I do like them classic radios for sure beats todays Chinese garbage. I do like the original camera audio much better than this new one. -Cheers!
I love the stories of your grandmother. I have memories very similar of my grandmother. Much simpler and happy times.
Nice little radio, like the case.
The original camera audio was better then the new mic love your videos.
Yeah, the new mic peaks and distorts a lot.
@@kyoudaiken yea It sounds more like Dave is doing a voice over does not sound right.
Camera audio level was on auto. I'll switch to manual for the next one.
@@12voltvids yea you did say on the video the original audio is better sounds more natural with the camera mic with the new mic it's as if the voice is right at you, appreciate your videos and time you put in to make them either way.
I love these hand held radios, such good memories!
It's nice your restoring your grandma's radio .My grandma and grandpa had a transistor radio above there refrigerator in Chicago when they were living .
I believe it was a zenith radio .
They listened to conservative radio stations.
This one has been on the back burner for many years. I'm actually listening to it now and I think I will leave the batteries in and use it to listen to talk radio on. It has great sound. I looked at it about 7 years ago and cleaned the volume control but didn't do a restore then. Now its fully restored and fully functional. An external antenna can be plugged in too so it should be pretty sensitive.
Bravo........wow .......I took old tape player apart .......I was amazed at all the metal parts.......it's a feet of engineering......cheers
Yup.
My vintage. Very interesting! I like old transistor radios.
Listening to it now. Sounds fantastic. Just listening to talk radio but it sounds great.
I see that this radio has CONELRAD markings on its dial, which was a Cold War-era radio alert system here in the states, intended to warn people of incoming Soviet nuclear bombers. Seems rather odd to me that Sony didn't leave those dial markings off when they exported this receiver to Canada. A lovely little heirloom! At least it didn't have those dreaded wax paper caps.
Sony wasn't even in canada at this time. It was Gendis. That was short for general distributors of Canada. Started by the Cohen Brothers back in early 60s and one of the products they imported was Sony electronics. Gendis became Sony of Canada. So this was likely an American radio imported into Canada. I don't obviously know where it came from. This was made the year I was born. I remember it from when I was a little kid, as far back as I can remember. I remember sitting at the kitchen table listening to country music on it and I would tune it down to the rock and roll station to hear the Beatles or rolling stones and getting my hand slapped with a wooden spoon. Lol. Different times. Today if you shake your fist at your kid and say do that again and ill knock you into tomorrow and you'll be getting a visit from social workers and your kids going into foster care.
Back in my day the belt hanging over the bedroom door was a deterrent and if it wasn't the sting of it across a bare ass was. Lol.
That kept us all in line, got an education and went to work. Now I can hear it now, I was abused. No I wasn't. Did I get my ass whipped a few times, sure and I also got the pointer at school across my knuckles for talking in class. Several of my friends got the strap at school. Yes they still did that.
@@12voltvids Apparently, I mistakenly thought by the early 1960's that Sony import divisions were everywhere, *especially* Canada. Sony *certainly* made a quality product in those days, as demonstrated by the heirloom in your possession.
You make a very interesting, albeit subjectively accurate, account of how things were in my own childhood (I'm 64), as well. Attaching *consequences* to, (and being held accountable for) inappropriate behavior in childhood seems to be sorely deficient in the upbringing of today's children, and society will inevitably reap the whirlwind because of this as they eventually advance into adulthood.
Almost as old as I am. Back in those days "transistor count" was a big deal and many manufacturers just used some as diodes and some not even in circuit. 6 transistors was enough for a well performing AM superhet (unless an RF stage was added).
"SWEET" Thanks Dave.
I remember My Moms Mother always listening to a kitchen Radio and too would listen for the WOKY Cash call.
And she did win one or more..
Grandpa also had one in the front room of the Rabbit barn. and as a 10 year old I wired the Radio to 4 Speakers out in the barn area. 24x80 I think it was.
With the Radio playing 24/7 the Rabbits were not so spooked by entering the Barn.
That old Radio I think still works. HAHAHAH.
I won 1040 from am 1040.
They made a random phone call and all you had to say was 1040 kicks butt when you answered. One day back in 80s when I was working at the shop I went home for lunch. I just had got in the door and the phone rang. I wasn't expecting any calls so I said the phrase that pays and got the bell ringing and all the winning music. They took my name and told me where to pick up my cheque.
They then played the call on the radio when the song ended.
I told the guys at work and they didn't believe me. Boss wouldn't let me have time off work to get they cheque so I called in sick and he docked me a days pay. The next day I showed up and showed him the cheque and told him I was planning to share it but because I got docked a day, I wasn't sharing a penny. Back then I wasn't being paid much. Probably only about 11 bucks an hour so a days pay was about 90 bucks. That was a fair trade for 1040.
@@12voltvids HAHAHAHAH.. SWEET..
Thanks, I enjoy transistor radio repair s.
Very relatable! I have an old Sony separate stack system from the very early 80s, complete with the wooden cabinet with the glass door. It was my granddad's pride and joy up until his passing in 1988, and my grandma held onto it until she died in 2007, at which point I rescued it before the house was sold. I can remember it from my childhood, always wanting to play records and tapes on it when we visited, but any such tinkering was usually supervised by granddad, just in case I tried messing with the tone settings! A few years ago I gave it the full restoration treatment - a good clean up inside and out, replaced the tape drive belts, swapped out the blown tuner backlight bulbs for LEDs, a liberal dose of contact cleaner for the switches, that kind of thing. It looks as good as when it left the factory. It occupies a lot of space and is hopelessly obsolete as a stereo by today's standards, but I'd never part with it.
The new microphone sounds distorted.
Camera was on auto level. I'll set it to manual for the next one.
@@12voltvids The distorsion was in the lower frequenzes. But maybe that was due to the auto recording level.
You can tell it's old by the way the speaker terminals were back then!
And all the other parts. Lol
Not related to this vid but do you repair old camcorders? Specifically Sony CCD-TR71? Fired it up after 20 years to try to convert 10 years worth of 8mm tapes and got that ‘fishy’ smell after about 10 minutes. From some of your other vids I’m figuring it’s a capacitor problem. TIA.
It will have bad caps. Generally not worth fixing. Some cameras only have a few others can have over 60. I digitize tapes and that would be a better use of your money that trying to fix an old camcorder. Or find a more modern one. The late 90a models and all the digital 8 don't have the cap issues. If looking at digital 8 make sure you select a model that supports analog playback. All the earlier digital 8 did then they dropped it on a few low end models.
@@12voltvids Thank you, I appreciate your expertise and advice. Also, glad I found your CZcams channel looking for this issue, enjoying some of your vids!
Audio is a bit clipped - could do with dropping a few DB of gain on the mic. Maybe post prod a bit of EQ as well to get rid of the bottom end?
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The radio moderator has Google+?? It was closed down...
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@@12voltvids 28:00
28:00 Google+ !? Vintage radio is old huh?
It seems it had better reception running from batteries. Do you think running from the bench supply was causing an issue with that?
I always use batteries to listen to portable radio.
first time I see capacitors from 1963✨ very important, logically these capacitors are at your age, weren't you born then?
Yup
@@12voltvids it is very important to repair a radio at your age
I wonder how many electronics 12voltvids has in his studio 😅
Not as much as you think.
@@12voltvids oh ok phew
Most is stuff that once repaired it is picked up by owner. When stuff gets abandoned I junk it
@@12voltvids oh ok
I noticed 1614 kHz on the end of dial that's strange as it should say 1620 kHz. If you live in countries with 9 kHz tuning 1614 kHz would not be used 1602 kHz would be the last one. I do like them classic radios for sure beats todays Chinese garbage. I do like the original camera audio much better than this new one. -Cheers!
It goes to 1620