I am glad it got to you in one piece, and that it is so easy to convert to take the right voltage for the USA. I love your channels.

@GuybrushThriftweed

3 жыл бұрын

Omg cuberdons :) Ingrediënts are: gum Arabic, glucose, water, gelatine and raspberry flavor. You see them a lot in here Belgium. I only can eat a few of them because they are so sweet :)

@EngineeringVignettes

3 жыл бұрын

Mad props for sending it to Adrian all the way from Europe! Cheers,

C'mon up at the top of the hour we've got a look at your traffic and weather, together! And The 8-bit Guy has a look at your sports! But right now! You're in the middle of a 30-minute commercial free music sweep with Billy Wilder "Break My Stride" on the place with the best repairs and the best music, Adrian's Digital Basement II! 108.1 fm! (nice work getting it going!)

I believe framboise is raspberry. Neat looking set!

@Pistoletjes

3 жыл бұрын

That's correct. And they are too delicious! I'm from Northern-Belgium (okay, the Netherlands) and Leonidas is the number 1 brand chocolate/sweets manufacturer.

I'm pretty sure this channel should be called "Adrian's Analogue Basement" 😂

Very ingenious way to have two voltages supported, without it being an easily tripped switch. Probably in the end turned out to be cheaper to just hard-wire in one type of voltage in the end, or for small devices like this just having them be multi-voltage.

Adrian's Analog Basement :)

One of these days you will get a Deoxit sponsorship…

@cybercat1531

3 жыл бұрын

Nay he's already showing off deoxit for free. Hence no point for deoxit to sponsor him. Just the way it is.

I was already screaming to the screen when I saw the AC back plate, "just reverse it!"

@andygozzo72

3 жыл бұрын

yep, i've seen that many times ;-)

@andygozzo72

3 жыл бұрын

i have a 4 am band philips that has a weird 'barrel' actuator voltage selector that you operate with a coin or wide blade screwdriver

Oh the irony. 'Adrian's Digital Basement' takes a look at a fully analog device that doesn't function correctly in a basement.

Another Adrians Analog Attic!

@Doug_in_NC

3 жыл бұрын

Every old bit of equipment he looks at seems to be analog, and every time I see it I think the same. That should be the channel name!

Love a retro radio. Such a good quality bit of kit! Thanks for sharing, another excellent video. 🙂

Ah, a shortwave radio. I bought an up-converter for my SDR last week. It’s a lot of fun listening to shortwave. I managed to pick up Radio Habana Cuba. I didn’t expect to pick up Cuban stations. In fact, I’ve counted at least 3 Radio Habana Cuba on shortwave. WMRI out of Miami also has several frequencies. That network broadcasts multiple programs for several countries (Czechia, Argentina, Russia, China among others). I can pick up a religious station out of Simi, California, but it’s rather weak. Another station I can get is out of Maine, and a Spanish language Catholic station out of Birmingham, Alabama. The Canadian stations are rather weak (least for me on shortwave). Unfortunately on AM, 990 from Winnipeg gets drowned out by 980 out of KC here. You may be able to pick up CBC out of Vancouver, but the Cascades may not help with shortwave or AM in your area. I wonder if I could pick up something further than Havana.

Hey Adrian. Those are a real treat. They are a specialty to some regions here in Belgium and you just got the real deal. Yes, be careful with your condition but do not leave them too long because they do not have preservatives.

There are different formulations of DeOxit (and other manufacturers) for _contact_ and _controls_ cleaning. Use the one for _controls_ on pots. Some cleaners also can damage the base material that some rotary switches and pot carbon tracks are mounted on, so using the right one is a wise idea. The carbon bar antenna would be used for all the AM bands and it's directionally sensitive. In my basement/shop I can turn a radio 90 degs and go from full power to nothing on an AM station. As for that radio, I am betting that the entire sub-chassis that the PCB is mounted on comes out with the dial. Otherwise it would be impossible to manufacture it. Nice radio, I have a few old Phillips units, several are tube era and they always impress me as to their build quality, ease of repair and audio tone. Cheers,

@neonhomer

3 жыл бұрын

D5L is 5% Deoxit and 95% flushing agent. D100L is 100% Deoxit. I use D5L on pots and switches but use the D100L on connectors like headphone jacks/plugs. Then use G100L to protect from oxidation.

Got to love a good bit of engineering regards the power. Very forward thinking from Philips!

U-121 was a long-lived Type IIB U-boat built during World War II for service in Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. U-121 spent the entire war as a training vessel and was scuttled at the end of the conflict. Apparently, the untold tale is that U-121 was salvaged after the war and turned into Phillips radios.

Analogue radios 📻 you got to love them! Great 👍🏻 video.

Deoxit is like robitussin for electronics...

@nysaea

3 жыл бұрын

underrated comment is underrated

Looks like a very well-built, well-designed receiver -- and it was durable enough to survive the Cold War!

I recently picked up a Grundig short wave radio. When I was a kid living overseas we used to listen to a lot of Short Wave radio stations. Now I live in Houston and there really aren't any state side anymore. I've been trying to find them, but most are very staticy and very religious if I can find them. From my research, most of the ones that transmitted in America have all gone digital now. It's really sad that they've shut all that down. Every now and then late in the evening I can pick up Cuba. You have to try different times of the day, I bet early morning you could maybe get China on the west coast.

The band switch brings back fond memories of the "Play/Record" switches used in cassette tape recorders from the 70's and 80's.

Nice to see the old "S" mark from Swedish SEMKO :)

I need to go through my Panasonic RF-1600 one of these days. It's actually a mid-60s radio; I certainly thought it being newer, more like mid-late 70s. It is easily one of the best performing radios I have.

Really cool power connector! Cool solution before modern multi voltage switched power supplies.

The two-position AC plug socket is brilliant, better than a switch.

FYI, to get some good shortwave attach a good length of wire, at least 20 feet, you will be what you get. Do keep in mind be up stairs away from major power lines.

@absalomdraconis

3 жыл бұрын

Don't think the signal strength is usually as good, but you can partially replicate a different length of antenna with either inductors (longer antenna I think?) or capacitors.

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis ever build a xtal radio? you need a good length of straight to work somewhat good.

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@@absalomdraconis inductors and capacitors can be used for antenna tuning, but usually used in transmit. some good SW radios doing have a tuning cap

Nice Backgroundpicture with the "Telespargel" , Greetings from Berlin !!

Adrian, as a Dutchie in Canada, if you need translations of Dutch you can always contact me. The label says: Ingredients: Sugar, Gum Arabic, Glucose, Water, Gelatine, Raspberry aroma. Coloring agents, E120 and E153. THT = Tenminste Houdbaar Tot = Best Before (dd/mm/yyyy) Their website can be found here: cuberdonsgeldhof.be/en/

Man, cuberdons are SO good! I always get some at the market when I can :)

Back in the day (1980's) in the UK, there would be harmonics on the LW dial from the MW (AM/Broadcast) dial. I think that is what you are hearing there. I have always been fascinated with radio from a kid. How could something so cheap and simple pick up speech and music from all over the World ? Even today, if I was stranded on a desert island, I would always make sure I have an old transistor radio with me...

Very good redio

Another Brick in the Wall and Break My Stride on the radio, love it. We don't have many good radio stations anymore here in germany :(

The FM broadcast system in Europe is slightly different from the one used in the US, the different pre-emphasis for example results in a lesser-treble sound. Also the AM is somewhat narrower in Europe, so it might have a good tune-up :-) by the way, till the early eighties the FM band on radios only reached to 104 Mhz

All those consumer devices had superior builds and excellent parts. My 10-band was a marvel! How I longed to understand how it worked in detail! Alas I got sidetracked into physics and math and had to leave electronics behind! But notice how nice the throw switches are - very nice parts throughout. BTW check the speaker for rot. Could be part of the audio issue.

That would, technically, be an analog device! :D

I was wondering if it was dual voltage because of a Techmoan video he did a while ago about another Philips product.

How can you have any pudding, if you don’t eat your meat?

@ncot_tech

3 жыл бұрын

*Pink Floyd intensifies*

@gabrielleeliseo6062

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome random clip.

@EzeePosseTV

3 жыл бұрын

STAND STILL Laddie!!

@nickwallette6201

3 жыл бұрын

He keeps hanging up, I don't understand.

@EzeePosseTV

3 жыл бұрын

There was a man answering! [Redials] ... Brrr Brrr .. Bip Beepbeep! ..... _"Short heavy sigh!"_

Alignment is needed on the phillips.

Before computers, it was geeky cool to be into radio. We all played with radios, some of our own construction. I got a really great 10-band radio for Christmas one year! That thing was a blast. It got me interested in foreign languages - listening to Europe. So now I'm illiterate in 4 languages! :) We learned about antennas, how to get licensed, Morse code, etc. That's why they called it Radio Shack!

Restringing those dials isn't too bad. Don't fear!

Wrong logo on intro :) . Thanks for great content again!

The ingredients for those sweets sound a lot like the ingredients for turkish delight. Do they have a similar taste?

@droopysloopy

3 жыл бұрын

No, they do not taste the same.

4:07: This 230V-Plate with the screws screamed "reverse the splate for 110V mode" instantly, you can see that the left pin of the figure-8 is covered.

i have that radio to it is from my grandfather! and it's working.

The dial being out of alignment can probably be fixed by adjusting some of those IF cans, but I wouldn't try it without a manual.

Has Phillips company stil produce these kind of Radios?can I purchase this online?(hope u Will give answer.)

In the early eighties, I had a radio with all the same dimensions. I forget the number on my radio. Perhaps it was a 679(?). The USA has never had regular broadcasting on long wave, so my radio had AM (MW), two shortwave bands, and FM (88-108). I would use the local oscillator in another radio to hear CW and SSB signals. That radio had been made shortly after Phillips acquired Magnavox. My radio had the Magnavox brand. Addendum: I never realized that my radio was dual voltage, until now!

Hi Adrian, I'm thinking if it is possible that the unshielded Commodore 64 can send any short wave at maybe 3.58 Mhz. BTW cool video.

So what is both soft and gooey and inside a nose? Does it taste salty?

You have the wrong antenna for picking up the non-FM bands.

For screws, I ended up picking up some of those medical pill holders, the ones with 7 containers for people who have to take different medication each day of the week. They the right size for most screws you'd encounter in most electronics. There are exceptions (I'm looking at you, BBC Master system) but they're cheap! I tend to put them in to containers in order I disassemble them from the system. Makes it easy to put them back in.

I am looking one for my parents. How can I procure it. would you help me.

Nice shortwave man. I been rebuilding a Haĺlicrafters S-38 from the 40s, but it doen't have FM. Tubes though, mmmm tubes. String up 53' of wire, put a 9:1 unun on the near end, and then clip the other side of the unun to the antenna. I don't think you'll need a counterpoise, but I may be wrong. Ought to be able to pick up stuff from about anywhere but Australia on that.

At this stage Philips did a lot of outsourcing in Asia. Earlier 1976 models were made by Philips in Singapore. This model though I am sure was made by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (National Panasonic) It has almost identical styling to their own range.

I have same model.It's first year when they moved production from Holland to Singapore. You have 3 screws up and 3 down on battery level when you remove back cover. There r 2 more in the upper part that holding the scale. No need to remove them. I was able to detach front panel that way.I would send you screenshots but YT wont let me leave the links here. Cheers.

Adrian, I just have to say I like your style, and I just have to ask - do you ever get angry, swear at something that just doesn't want to play ball, pick it up and throw it at the wall? You just seem so calm all the time :)

Gotta love how Pink Floyd is the first sone you tuned in.

@moshly64

3 жыл бұрын

& the next sample is 'Mathew Wilder - Break My Stride'

May be the mendella effect but I think I had a radio that had the low frequency stations on the right when I was 6 or 7 it was a tape deck boom box with a handle on the side

In a number of countries such as here in Australia and in the UK and parts of Europe, they use 9 Khz stepping on AM whereas you guys use 10 Khz stepping, I also understand that as of the 90s you have an extended AM band, which I don't think other countries have, that might potentially explain some of the issues you have on AM. Nice radio too, I like old radios like that one.

Here in the US all you are really going to get on Long Wave is utility stations (morse code beacons and other non-voice signals) so yes, what you were getting on longwave was probably just bleed over from AM. Longwave isn't really used for commercial broadcasts or voice transmissions here.

Not to bore you but one more thing - I'm pretty sure the whole works with the pulley system etc. comes out without any issues involving the pointer thread. Remember this had to go together on a line, assembly must have been straightforward, and so disassembly. I never saw a single example of a radio with an inverted dial! Also - it is very important for shortwave to have a semi-proper antenna of the right length - say a 1/4 wave in length. I had a long wire stretching from my bedroom to a pine tree near the edge of the front yard, about 60 feet :) And you won't get much during the day in some shortwave bands - because long-distance transmission depends on the state of the ionosphere, which changes as the Sun is up or down.

It is strange that the radio doesn't have a 16:1 UNUN built in to match the Telescopic Whip to the front end.

3:45: FTZ-U: that's the registration number at FernmeldeTechnischesZentralamt, the German FCC equivalent from 1949 to 1989. (so it does not help a lot in dating the radio)

Any time i hear the word "Transistor radio", the Van Morrison song "Brown Eyed Girl" gets stuck in my head And whatever happened To Tuesday and so slow? Going down the old mine with a Transistor radio

These old high quality Japanese capacitors rarely go bad in such low voltage circuits, except for the mains power supply.

Philips used to make some decent radios back in the day, but that statement can apply to many manufacturers that used to make good stuff before cheaping out... :)

@zehph

3 жыл бұрын

Planned obsolescence was institucionalized and received government incentive I think, people got gready and there is a limit on how much money you can make selling stuff that lasts one or two lifetimes, specially when the well made stuff was somewhat easy to service by the user. People like things to be as cheap as possible and steered the market this way... That is why quality is mostly tied to "premium" stuff, you pay more the companies have incentive for making stuf that lasts longer

4:30 why Berlin as a desktop background?

FTZ must be something with it being a radio, I have a HiFi tuner from the German brand Dual here, also with a similar sticker. Never seen it anywhere else.

nice beast :-)

just remember that only ITU Region 2 (the Americas) and Australia (of Region 3) use the "extended" AM band from 1620-1710 kHz...ITU Regions 1 (Europe/middle east/Africa) and Region 3 (Asia, Oceania, everyone else) don't really use it... a couple of European stations have experimented with using 1620-1710, but I'm not sure if that's used on a full-time basis. The other regions also use 9 kHz channel spacing, compared to Region 2's 10 kHz spacing... which might explain why the reception range is "shifted" a bit.. it's probably designed to pick up 531-1610 Khz, instead of 530-1710 kHz... it's also a pity that the longwave band (180-279 kHz) was never used here... though I suppose it serves the same purpose for Europe as our extended AM band does...

Not surprising selector switch is causing issues, how many radios I had that had that issue,,LOTS

Being from Montreal I'm shocked that you didn't know framboise is raspberry in french. lol

The FTZ on the sticker in the battery compartment refers to the 'Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt' of Germany. kind of an equivalent to the FCC.

The FTZ sticker is the German equivalent of the FCC approval. Many radios sold in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s had this.

15:30 - I guess Big Clive has managed to make Poundland an international reference point for bargain basement stores - at least within the YT electronics/retro/fixit community.

@cyruscuckler3495

3 жыл бұрын

Him and Ashens!

Now I miss All the long gone radios I've had in my life :(

Pink Floyd and Matthew Wilder now own your firstborn, Adrian! :)

For Radio stuff... Mr Carlson Lab is your friend. Maybe this radio just needs peaking up?

does the FM band only go to 104MHZ?

@cookingwithchefjeff

3 жыл бұрын

It looks like 104 is just the last one printed. I'll bet it goes to 108, which is the standard most places.

@testcardsandmore1231

3 жыл бұрын

It's an old radio. In Europe the FM band was extended on two occasions. First from 100 MHz to 104 MHz and then all the way up to 108 MHz. If I remember correctly, the first station above 104 MHz went on air here in Sweden in 1993.

@VintageTechFan

2 жыл бұрын

@@testcardsandmore1231 There was a reason for that. Early FM radio designs had quite significant local oscillator radiation, the oscillator runs (typically) 10.7MHz above the receiving frequency. They didn't want to have that all over the air band (which starts at 108MHz for NAV, and ~118MHz for COM), so they left a gap. As the designs improved (and the regulations on spurious emmisions in RX mode got stricter), extending the band became possible.

I don't think Long Wave was ever used in North America. Every radio I've ever had with Long Wave was completely dead, except for sometimes so AM stations leaking through as you found.

Now you and Mr. Carlson's Lab can compare notes on radio restoration. :)

@neonhomer

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe Adrian can send the radio off to Mr. Carlson's Lab to have it aligned... would make a good collaborative video!

Are they raspberry? I don't read Dutch, but just down the road in France, "framboise" is raspberry.

I used to have one of these back in 1982. The reason the sw doesn't work well, is probably due to someone trying to extend the frequency of the fm band and moved the sw varycap trimmer by mistake. The fm only went to 104.5 mhz.

Ok ok one more! I looked in the 1975 Sears Christmas catalog and a 6-band radio cost $70, which is $340 in modern money! Americans once didn't mind paying for quality items. It's as if more pride went into making such things, and it was priced accordingly.

I don't know whether the FM band on the radio is also shifted or not, but if it is, then it is possible on purpose. In these day's there was an pager system around 87.5 MHz. If your radio could receive below that frequency, it was (more or less) possible to listen to the police. Some shifted the range on their radio to make it possible. Police is now digital and coded, so listening is impossible.

@VintageTechFan

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the Eurosignal. Called it the "techno channel" back then: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qaGC1LGwdsi-o6Q.html

I need Philips 780. Can it be provided to me

FTZ is the abbreviation for "Fernmeldetechnisches Zentralamt", the central german administrative authority for technical regulation of (radio) communication and approval of such devices.

@Colaholiker

3 жыл бұрын

You beat me to it. Goold old German "Behördendeutsch". ;-) It can best be compared to the FCC in the United States. Back in the day it was mandatory to have those stickers to indicate that tis is an approved device that doesn't cause any interference.

The radio needs a realignment. and the only way you can do it is with a RF generator. And knowing witch adjustment is what. a full schematic would help and back in the day of tube radios you could get a alignment procedure.

The FTZ was the German equalant to the FCC. The Sticker is for the registration of the device. There is no English Wikipedia Article about the FTZ

AM and shortwave the in states have become a hive of religious and conservative talk with several stations mirroring their broadcasts to both bands. As the FCC relaxed the licensing requirement to allow one media out let to amass licenses on all bands (used to be illegal), those with the money can broadcast where ever they can afford.

Big thumbs up! If it ain't Dutch, it ain't much! :-) ... and you should trademark: "How cool is that!"

We had just one like that.

Around Portland, all you'll hear on longwave is a couple of navigation beacons in Morse code.

If you want to get shortwave, get a radio that was good for it, like realistic DX series, panasonic shortwave. There are others too. If they got SSB/CW filter and BFO you got some gear that will find some neat things like QE2 phone service.

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@Webel Foxy icon, kenwood ,panasonic?

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@Webel Foxy some of the other brands that make some great shortwave radios

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@Webel Foxy would love to get a radio shack dx-300 or the Panasonic equivalent

@billfusionenterprise

3 жыл бұрын

@Rebel Media L.T.D. look up to see if there is any hamfest in area (ham swapmeet). the one in San Diego became a once a monthe electronics free for all

Tôi ở việt nam muốn đặt mua sản phẩm Philip 780 này thì làm thế nào?

The antenna might be the original one. You just need to actually extend it so it clips on the other side of the radio.

@droopysloopy

3 жыл бұрын

It most definately is not the original antenna, my brother replaced it with one he had lying around after the original broke.

I tried to like this video twice by accident. Got so excited that the figure 8 connector was adjustable to go to different taps.

Are you Berlin fan or is this "just" a picture you loved in particular or even shoot yourself? Anyway, we're happy to welcome you once again, very soon :)

I would like to possess the radio, can I have it!

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