Is it ok to have a wire antenna like that turn and double back on itself like that ?

It was radio club tonight for me, @STU, so I'm watching this on playback. The "GEOCHRON" looks fabulous. It looks like I'll now need a third monitor. Cheers for that, mate. hi, hi. Give yourself a pat on the back, Stu. Grand job!!

Are you still working on this? I'd be eager to try this on my mac.

Link for the uk cb band chirp file ?

Why are you taking the hexbeam down?

What's the EMF compliance distance and how far does it extend in to the neighbour's garden?😂😂😂

Now we can work 80 meter this winter....

Get it higher Stu.

My missus would be hanging the washing up on that hexbeam 😂

All I saw was quick lunchtime so rushed,turned radio on n was a quick video lol 🙈🙈🙈

This is interesting, nice to see things working again. Always good to have the manual. I had a 101E, liked it very much, put in the 250 kHz c.w. filter. I made a separate single valve 807 amplifier for Top Band, run one valve instead of two. I had been turning the 101 down in power and still getting out so after eight years I sold it intending to go QRP with h/b gear based around the G4CLF p.c.b. I moved QTH so it didn't get going for ten years. G4GHB

Excellent Job there Stu especially for your first repair, it sounds great too. 👍

Interesting video. It must be a late model you have there as the early FT101E and anything prior came with the 11m band as standard. The manuals for these radio's are so comprehensive that they give plenty of technical information such as individual xtal frequency that it should easily help in indentifying oddball xtals that have been used to modify. Its good to see these "boat anchors" up and running. They sound great and have good receiver sensitivity.

Great video Stu,i look forward to the next instalment. Great copy on you as well using the 101e. Many thanks M0KCV

Very well done Stu 👏👏

Very good indeed, Stu, what a great journey with a great outcome very good content matey :)

What great fun that was, learnt so much along the way ! Next video will be on how to use the test equipment I purchased.

Well Done Stu, looking forward to the video and the smelly vision from working on these old sets. 😂

80m turns out to be the best band tonight.

Very good indeed Stuart fine business

Nice one Stu

Looking forward to the repair video Stu 🙂👍

Well done getting the old girl working again 👌

First video from the new vintage shack / repair bench

i have a fully functional 101 b

nice work Stu

Yes

Brilliant Stu. When running a radio was a technical art form.

Nice one Stu, great job in getting the FT-101E up and running.

❤ Great you fixed the old radio. Sounds good on rx and tx 🎉 I just fixed a icom202 vhf from the 70‘s and a ft 736 Yaesu from the 90‘s. Nów the ft 757 gx is waiting from the 80‘s Always worth to get the old Radios on the air! Fantastic Enjoy your radio 😊 73 de Lars DH1LL

Great fun, shame about the rude German, but never mind ..

Nice work Stu, ML and S are looking for Technicians 😄

Hey would you help me with something? I have a chinese radio with the microphone connector into the radio with a broken tab that locks the cord into the radio. I do not know to replace the mic or if i should cut the cord and buy a new connector then try to splice the 2 together. I really want to get into radio and since this is a budget radio, i dont even know if they sell the microphone. This would be a great hobby for me, i am at a loss on what to do and where to go. I dont use fb and i live in Japan. The local hobby place did not have any type of communication equipment.

Yes the LCR40 is 0.5pF to 10000uF, no ESR though.

I didn't think the peak Atlas went as low as 100pF ?

Looking forward to your live stream on this shitter LOL

Do you leave the head unit on the dash all the time ? I'm looking for something that's easily detached..

Well Done Stu, you’ll have to give us a run down of the issues but i am guessing a bunch of tired components.

When I program the MEMO buttons (M1,M2,etc) with a frequency, the assignments to the buttons are cleared after restarting Yoniq. Do you have the issue, or know how to fix it ?

No wonder why you didn't join me tonight...you are very busy!!!

I have contacted both ICOM and ACOM. They are both aware of the problem, but refuse to address and FIX IT!!!!

That looks super modular i bet it's nice to work on compared to modern devices. I can't stand doing board level repairs on new tech.

It looks very like an off centre fed dipole considering that the radiating element is almost twice the length of the other leg. The balun is only an isolater and not part of overall antenna length.

Many thanks 73 Rob G3RCE

Is there a way to click on a person online and it take you to there frequency on youre radio so you can qso and log without entering data? Bit like the cluster but from Station Master members home page?

7 screens why.

Capacitors with an identity crisis ? Yep I have half a dozen guitar amps with the same problem. Solution ? Buy a new one.

Looking Good Buddy 👍

Emily’s lovely! Great day by the looks of it.

Thanks for the video. I own one myself.