Midland 77-805UK CB27/81 UK fM CB radio Portapak - On The Air test following extensive repair

Well we soon discovered another snag! When placed the right way up, there are no TX bargraph lights. It'll be a knackered preset despite what MR Chippie was saying...that's because he don't know the fairy lights were working on RX.
As usual, Mr Chippie drives around our 6-mile 'difficult terrain for radio' test route. He stopped at the 5-mile point to conduct a static test on low power. On this radio low power is internally adjustable & I set it to the propr 400mW level. Full power is a full 4W on this set. RX was under 0.5uV.
This version is slightly better on receive in general than the 'D' version.
The radio worked really well throughout the test.
Note that these Portapak sets dont have an internal speaker so have to be used either with the correct factory supplied speaker/mic or if used with a standard replecement microphone like I'm doing here, the radio needs to be connected to an extension speaker through the 3.5mm mono jack socket provided on the radio.
Our continued thanks to Thunderpole for kindly supplying the T3000 radio we use in the test vehicle at no cost to us. This is the sole reason for the 'paid promotion' flag on this video.
Recorded 22nd May 2024
Richard G0OJF
Richard 2E0FKC (Mr Chippie)
Lincolnshire, UK
(C) Tango Systems Group 2024
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[@stephengunrunnerhanson3550]

Great little radios can be problematic. I had 10 of these and the local farmer went a business radio more private as he thought and for them got them for £40 we checked them cleaned them new Mike's it's working better that Midland and they were all sealed we broke the seal and cleaned and and reseal yes thanks for letting us see the radio and its a great sounding audio clear with and a little edge when on the big midland

[@dw7920]

Really nice TX'd audio from the little Midland - clear at all times. Iffy fairy lights aside what a great little set.

[@JamesHowe-ci5vt]

Excellent Scratchy corner test at all the key points, and at the end I thought it was a sparrow and a mouse on the table today but someone Identified the bird as a chaffinch in the comments.

[@quotagious]

Class 170 DMU :)

[@ludo9234]

Ancaster services station must be one of the most free advertised petrol stations in the country, unfortunately it's always shut 😂.

[@paulchapman1175]

hi 👋 richard I enjoy your air test also best wishes to you and mr chippy also sorry i missed your video on radios from paul chapman at east sheen 73's can you please tell me when is the next video on radios please

[@ukfmcbradioservicingTango21]

Thanks Paul. Next CB video is likely to be Satuday.
Richard

[@paulchapman1175]

@@ukfmcbradioservicingTango21 ok richard look forward to see the video from paul chapman at east sheen 73's

[@David-km8in]

Bird cam. Chaffinch today.

[@ukfmcbradioservicingTango21]

Thank you...Mr Chippie was wondering.
Richard

[@David-km8in]

@@ukfmcbradioservicingTango21 You have had to types of Robin visiting your beard table. One has a deeper orange chest, which is a migrating bird from Europe and the paler chested is a residential non migrating bird or a juvenile bird in it's first year of life. Not just a amateur radio operate but once was a keen birdwatcher. David M0DUU

[@spig021]

Female Chaffinch on both occasions & a Field / Wood Mouse.