Pete's Radio Bench

This Peter's Radio Bench,  next to the BBS equipment, where he fixes his radio junk!

The upturned chassis is an old Hallicrafters SX101 communications receiver under restoration. Other equipment visible in the picture (from left to right) is a Rola Professional 77 tape recorder, a Cossor 1035 Mk II Osciloscope, an Astor VM85 monitor, a Yaesu Musen FRG7000 communications receiver, a Leson TW233 microphone, a model 110 SWR meter, an STC A670 communications receiver behind chassis (AMR300), a Pearce Simpson "Bengal" SSB Transceiver, a prototype scanner (unbadged) from an asian factory, a Kingsley AR7 communications receiver and an Aegis extension speaker.

The SX

The SX-101 is a MK1 and I'm still chasing a dial scale "S"meter and lighting diffuser for it.

It seems that only "really old" stuff is worth repairing these days, new electronic items are designed to be disposable and made to fail after a predetermined time has elapsed. A consequence of years of computer aided design and documented MTBF statistics maybe?

Background midi music is "Radioactivity" by Kraftwerk.

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