Realistic Portavision-60 12-781 AM FM TV Band Radio Review
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- čas přidán 16. 09. 2023
- Back in the 1980's Life was Good! The Realistic Portavision-60 12-781 AM FM TV Band Portable Radio sitting By your Side as you Camped, Fished, and Enjoyed the Outdoors. Never missing your Favorite TV show's Broadcast. Fast Forward to 2023, and the Analog TV Bands are Silent. You are left with a Radio that still Performs Most Excellent on AM, and FM Bands. Awesome Speaker Audio, Smooth Analog Tuning, Tone Control, AC/DC Operation, and Classic Looks makes this Model a Must Have in your Collection.
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Features I like about the Portavision-60:
Above Average FM Reception.
Great Selectivity.
Metal Handle.
Four Inch Speaker that has Rich, Full Audio.
Tone Control.
AC Power.
Above Average AM Reception.
Fit, and Finish is Top Notch.
Classic 1980's Looks.
Easy to Find on the Secondary Market.
Fun to Tune.
Overall, if you are looking for a Classic, Analog tuned Transistor Radio, for the Shop, Kitchen, or Work Bench, then Try this Model. You won't be Disappointed.
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That looks so 1980’s!! Back when I was in high school 🏫!! The Portavision 60 is like 👍 the Mercedes Benz of the bedroom 🛌. I think 🤔 your Portavision 60 radio 📻 has a 4 inch speaker 🔊. I’ve ALWAYS been a fan of metal speaker 🔊 grilles. Tip, I’d use some compressed air in a can, to blow the dust off of the speaker 🔊 cone. Just don’t do this at full force. This could rupture the speaker 🔊 cone, or make the paper 📄 cap 🧢 in the middle of the speaker 🔊 to come off. Your friend, Jeff.
Great review. I wish I had that radio when I was younger. I could've listened to any TV station on any band, not just VHF back then.
Continuous tone control (such as the one this radio has) is a very nice feature. I like to hear FM in a gentle audio - not too much bass, intelligible enough but not too much highs. I regret recent radios do not have it, or otherwise only a 'High-Low' toggle is provided. Some recent medium-to-high-end DSP radios (about $50 USD or higher) provide bandwidth selector for AM and SW bands, but rarely provide something for FM.
Nice to see video's like this, it reminds me to the good old day's, as here in Europe the brand Tandy sold these radio's here too, most under the brand-name "Realistic, Memorex, Micronta and other, although that was not the real brand of the radio, most where Japanese brands and other, probably that was why they sound so good, I have no idea, but they sold good products like my first turntable Realistic LAB 6O, great analogue tuners, casette tape deck's and so on. I have used them for years, I guess the brand-name Realistic was underrated and disappeared from European marked. On the present day people here talk so much about DAB+ (digital radio), internetradio, streaming Spotify and more like that. AM are only a few radiostations, and in a couple of years FM will disappear too. Every radio for sale, the new ones must have possibility to receive DAB+ or else they can't be sold, except second hand radio's and those from eBay is the only way to find good old radio's. I am Dutch, so my English is not perfect but I want you to know that I like your channel, a good way to see the good old radio's back and to hear them play. Keep up the good work!! Greets from Belgium.
Todderbert is good at understanding the character of his radios.
Your low VHF may yet be useful if the FM band expands downward to 80 or 76. One of my first shortwave radios was a Realistic Astronaut 4, obviously a four band radio which had shortwave frequencies from 3,9 to 22 MHz. They made some really cool radios.
That portable TV radio was made a few days before I was born! (September 1986) it was made in August. Very rare for a radio to have a UHF TV band. It usually be VHF TV band from channel 2-6 (TV 1) and channel 7-13 (TV 2). If analog TV didn't go away, you would have listened to your favorite TV shows like your daytime soaps, comedies, court shows, movies, talk shows, and news on this Realistic Portavision-60 any where on the go. The only thing is missing is the NOAA weather radio band. That big radio is the same age as me!
happy birthday month, fellow september child
@@VintageOils thanks! It was on the 6th.
@@chriswideman1218 all the best
i still got two more days to wait
@@VintageOils well happy early birthday to you. Are you a 1986 baby?
@@chriswideman1218 nah, I'm a 89 baby. still got a bit of 80s within me :)
I have a couple of realistic radios that I got off of eBay from the late 70s-early 80s that I had when I was growing up… The sound is great on FM; I just wish I could fix the volume control which is scratchy
DeOxit Fader Formula. I use the spray, and put some on a small plastic swab, and try to get it into the volume pot. Always use the Fader formula, the others can destroy the volume pot by removing the thin carbon film.
Nice video, sounds great, looks good too. They don't make them like that anymore. Hopefully you can fix that scratchy volume knob.
funny how much 80s music is on FM in 2023. I guess it counts as “oldies” now. 50s was oldies in the 90s.
Yep we are old
The really, REALLY strange thing?
The only other radio I have ever seen that had the UHF TV band on it that wasn't a Rat Shack is an RCA that was built as a TV for blind people.
Hej Todderbert have just seen your review of the Realistic Portavision 60 i must say what a nice looking radio Todderbert have you seen this radio? LIJIANI RD239 it seems very interesting it has:
Shortwave Radio AIR/VHF/AM/FM/SW/Weather Bands Transistor with Bluetooth/TF Card/Flashlight,MP3 Player, Digital Record, Alarm Clock,Sleep Timer,Powered by AA & BL-5C Battery,Type-C;ANT Jack
A lot of nice features in maybe a radio for your channel that you can review I'm very interested in this radio I live near an airport too so like to listen on airbands nice to have airband in a radio but a real scanner is better for that. But I have no LIJIANI radio and it seams to be a very good radio brand take care and have a nice monday morning here in Sweden.
Wait a bit on the RD239. I have one, and they are working out the bugs.
@@todderbert Hej Todderbert thanks for your info regarding LIJIANI RD239 okej some bugs then I put that radio on hold a bit but, like the look and all the features it has come back Todderbert if you hear some updated news regarding fix on bugs in this radio take care and have a nice day.
The discord invite link in the description is broken
Should work, it is set to an infinite time limit, and I have been using it for years. Just checked the Server settings, and it is still there.
I'd really like to put Iron Man deck next to my Grundig Sateilit 800 millennium ...
He's the man with the master plan
Does it runs on both AC and DC Batteries ?
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