I enjoy watching your videos. Your a good teacher. I use to work on older equipment my health isn't so great anymore so it's only when I have a halfway decent day I'll try at messing with old things. Thanks for sharing.

I'm watching so many these videos that I might be learning something. (Don't worry I won't touch anything...that I know right now.) 25 years of electronics and I'm happy to learn more here.

I have two of these for some reason. LOL I remember my dad and I when a little lad I was, went into a hardware store in around 1966 and bought this, it's one of my earliest memories. Also, I had a leather maker make me a leather handle from luggage to go on top, it looks identical to the old one, but it's real leather.

Wow that "Loud and clear!" takes me back! When I was a young soldier serving in Vietnam circa 70-71 I worked in communications. We always began our setup with a radio check, and the response was "Loud and Clear!" Oh sure when we old switchboard operators got going it would be "Have you 5 X 5" an indication of the loudness and clarity if everything was good. This soon deteriorated with some of the troops into slang "Gottya Lickin'Chickn" Of course we who were communications trained never used such slang and usually gave the troops shit about deviating from standard, but that's the way it was over there, once something like that got started, it sort of just caught on like a flu bug and spread all over.

ADF AM aviation marker beacon. A simple AM signal with a two character Morse identifier code. They were the very first aviation navigation beacons used, and utilized the directional qualities of an AM antenna to guide the aircraft. The most primitive of all aviation guidance systems.

I have a couple of these that I need to dig out and fix. Actually, I have several GE radio projects that will be the subject of future videos.

Your videos are never boring. Always crunk. Love that Persian music station @32:00!

The longwave beacon LG is in Long Beach CA and FCH is in Fresno.

Great video as always. Good call on leaving the cap plates as-is. Not a major deal.

Sounds great! nice work with the tie wraps, like that allot! 73

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Great video, as always you're video's are excellent lots of tech stuff not too much bullshit like some of the video's on KZfaq. Love the old GE receiver. I have been watching a lot of you're video's and I never thought of testing cap's by running audio through a speaker with the cap to check it. Keep up the great work. I wish we had that many radio stations here where I live but we are lucky to have 20 stations in radio range.

Those transistors remind me of the soviet era germanium low power transistors that where used in computing and early digital electronics. Namely sft307 and similar.

Come on, Eileen!! Great video. Love the scope.

That was my first shortwave set when I was a teenager.

Those are ADF beacons from a nearby airport on the LW scale. You are correct they are phasing out as they go inoperative.

Love to find one of those radio's .....love them.

Ha! They put a "Tums" commercial on this one! Lmao! Great video Shango. Thanks again. Love the radio and tv and mine videos. Take care. S

That driver transistor you pulled looks just like the French made SFT 323 transistors I have a couple of (including the gold legs).

It is a very sensitive radio. Good old WWV out of Fort Collins, CO. @ 10 Mhz, I've used that in the past to check dial accuracy.

Sounds and looks awesome Shango066!!

That beacon in aviation is called and ADF and used for instrument approaches. Pretty much not used with the advent of the FMC (Flight Management COmputer) and GPS.

Very good receiver!!!

My dial pointer was off by about 1/2". I moved it over. Simple fix... not sure how it got in the wrong place. BTW, for those watching... the pilot lights are #12

I put Rock With You in all my videos too, but they have nothing to do with Radios so it's harder to fit it in

That scope is in excellent shape . Nice find perfect for the bench top. Wonder who makes it ?

Moving the dial cord sweet

Ouch! My ears are still ringing. That's what I get for having a real amp and decent speakers on the PC. Yup, it sure come through the feed in this video. Got to say that radio really does have good fidelity, which is one thing GE always seemed to get right no matter how much they cheaped out the rest of the radio. Back when I was in college I had a GE clock radio (early electronic digital clock model) and the unit had loudness compensation with a very strong bass boost. Just can't even buy a decent clock radio today.

What is that old scope?A telequipment?

Sounds like a few RTTY stations on 20 meters

I'm sort of wondering about the second set, whether it is actually dead or whether it had something stupid wrong with it like an open power switch. I've had some sets that I thought were DOA until I bypassed the power switch and the battery tray, though I'm sure that there is more wrong with it then that given the problems with the working example. Either way I would suggest to the owner that he keep it around for spares, just in case.

The dial string setup is a nightmare!

Hey Bud.. I have two of these radios that I want to get at least one fixed for my father. this radio has been a great memory in my childhood.. local radio repair man coulden't repair back 25 plus years ago.. had distorted output.. so do the ones that I got off of E-bay.. What driver and output transistors do i need and where do i get them?? I tried looking for the P40 outputs.. and no luck.. Thanks Brother! any help would be great.. Radio Tv Phono Nut won't get back to me at all

In my country a lot of capacitors have plates bent outwards a little bit.

Yup like everyone else with the tone but makes it worst is because I am on the autism spectrum my hearing is hypersensitive and pile on with that I am a headphone user.

@ 17:05 LG - 309 KHz Satenas, Sweden? - although @ 33:35 it looks like 238 KHz +/- dial accuracy? - Was that radio picking up broadcast band images on LW? Never heard voice transmissions on LW, other than a nav weather report. My earlier caution about the caps was based on the thought that you might potential problems matching/rebiasing the transistors. You did not. Your experience paid off. It was interesting to note on the scope that the12.5Kc squeal seemed to be linearly mixed with audio at low levels and then multiplicatively mixed (modulated) at high audio levels. Good Job!

At 24:24 in the video..does the string go around that bolt..without a pulley, and drag on it???

That dial string! oy!

do you use a crt monitor?

LG and FCH beacons, at least that's what I heard.

Can you explain how to get to the light bulbs in this radio...thanks...nice video...

I see quite a few of these in Ohio, I think i will pass them up after seeing the brittle plastic issue.

I want one

u missed ur calling as a Dj,.,lol

The plastic part problem with GE radios is not necessarily limited to aged stuff. When the Superadio came out circa 1980, I bought one and had it for six months when the tab that holds the string on the tuning wheel pulley broke off. I junked the set ( foolish, I know) and bought a second one. Less than a year later, same exact problem. I gave up until the Superadio II came out. I had that for several years with no problem as I tuned it as little as possible and foolishly sold it to a friend. Then the Superadio III came out and I bought it and it was a TOTAL disaster. I performed so poorly, I literally smashed it to pieces and put it in the trash.

OUCH... whats with the ear piercing tone in the beginning of the video? Edit... nevermind you explain it at about 1:20

God damn, that constant squealing gave me a headache hommie.

i cant hear it on my wharfedale diamond speakers, hang on yes i can now my treble was turned down