Recent content by GTC

Thanks 999.

I haven't found any wires like that. Looks to me that the hacker has cleaned up behind himself. Now that I have an idea of what it looked like, I may be able to make one myself on a piece of prototyping board ... unless I can find someone parting out a GTL. Update: I've managed to get a look...

Many thanks for that. So it seems the original board has been removed.

I'm working my way through a resto on a GTL. Although there's a headphone jack in situ, there are no connections to it and there are no disconnected wires hanging around either. I've checked out the schematic and it appears there should be a PCB labelled PC-480 from which the headphone...

It's not a complicated radio and being tube-based it has a certain charm for me, so I do intend to get mine going.

Ah, 'She Who Must Be Obeyed'. I have a 123B in my project pile with a suspected dud modulation transformer. Will be interested to follow your progress.

Any progress with this?

Should be fine. Just be aware that there are many low quality antenna switches on the market.

Nail polish remover is based on acetone. A very good product for the job is GC Electronics Radio & TV Cement Solvent, whose chemical composition according to its MSDS is: Chemical Name, CAS Number, %WT Acetone, 67-64-1, 27-42 Toluene, 108-88-3, 23-39 n-Butyl Acetate, 123-86-4, 15-26...

he stopped responding to all forms of contact. Very odd. Maybe someone on the 6 meter band could ask him why that is the case.

Well, he's certainly still alive and kicking as at March 2020:

I bought a pair of Archer Space Patrol radios for a few bucks at an auction a few years ago, to add to my motley collection of CB memorabilia. They came with original boxes and instructions, and don't appear to have been used very much. They are channel 14 and work as well as can be expected...

Is that site still operating? I get this message "We can’t connect to the server at n4rev.dyndns.org"