Neat flea market find today

GA1dad · May 3, 2020

Picked up a Lafayette Telsat SSB-120 at the fleamarket today for $10. Got it home and everything appears to be working ( at least as far as I can tell without a proper antenna to hook up to it ). Haven't found much info or manuals on it yet. Any recommendations on how to proceed with it? I wanna get a wire up for it, and make sure it's transmitting on frequency, but beyond that I am unsure where to go. I have to imagine some new capacitors could be beneficial.

Thanks for looking.

Mudfoot · May 3, 2020

It's a nice looking radio.

autotuner · May 3, 2020

Ohhhh, I like. I never see anything like that down here.

OldTech03 · May 3, 2020

You should proceed by selling it to me for 20 bucks

Shadetree Mechanic · May 3, 2020

Nice find, I would just hook it up and run it and see what it does.

GA1dad · May 3, 2020

Thanks folks

BJ radionut · May 3, 2020

That's got the OLD PLL02A chip...couple switches and cover all the way to 10m.
We used the NB and PA switch to do that YEARS ago

unit_399 · May 3, 2020

Hook a dummy load up on that meter and see what it does.

- 399

Tallman · May 3, 2020

Those were really nice radios back in the day!

BJ radionut · May 3, 2020

You could change the reference xtal in those and go right on the 10-meter band...realign the TX/RX and made a nice 10-meter mobile rig

secret squirrel · May 3, 2020

Treat that mic like gold. The Lafayette mics sound really well. It is an electret mic if I remember correctly. The amperage is different. I had a Lafayette 640 at one time. Great flea market find.

barefootindian · May 3, 2020

Thats a nice and neat looking rig you got there. Congratulations on your flea market find.Looks brand new too.

GA1dad · May 4, 2020

unit_399 said:
Hook a dummy load up on that meter and see what it does.

- 399

I did. It dead keyed at about 2.5 watts according to the Dosy. There was modulation when I spoke into the dummy load, but I don't recall the readings. Not sure what else I can do ( or how ) until I get a proper antenna up. As it was, I had a 2m/70cm mobile antenna handy and hooked it up (for RX only,,, did not attempt to TX) With the ham antenna I was able to pick up a few voices, though not clear and very weak. I was able to switch from AM to both USB and LSB and hear by the tone that the fine tuning adjustment knob was working. Gain, squelch and volume knobs all worked,, as did the switches. It all appears hopeful.

Rwb · May 5, 2020

Gimme that radio,i got $25 handy to give you

autotuner · May 5, 2020

I see your $25, and raise $20

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