I remember when the 102 was first released ..very nice looking rig sounds great 📻 Thanks for sharing

What idiots! Do they not know that all some one has to do is look up their call sign and BAM! got their address? ITS PUBLIC INFORMATION! Good points here!

Yeah. Just do not cut the red wire. Yeah no.

It's 7:55pm here in South Florida

20 meters has great signal 14.215 right now

I would not do the and uh yeah.

You have some cool stuff there and I like how you describe it and show it off. The camera work though a Cinéma vérité piece? I was kinda getting motion sickness towards the end there. Cool stuff though thanks for sharing.

Speaker relay or capacitor or both needs checking. Pots and knobs need cleaning. I have this same problem with popping and fading in and out on my Marantz 2226 B. It will be going to a shop to be repaired. Its to valuable to me not to have it repaired.

I was recorded by a POTA activator and didn't know at the time. I commented favorably on one of his subsequent videos and I mentioned he was in my logs. He then replied to me and got me to check one of his previous videos at a specific time stamp. I had to chuckled to myself and thought it was cool.

Get out!!! People are not knowledgeable when it comes to vintage equipment so it either goes to a thrift store or is left out in a trash pile. Wow what a fine man!

Using it to lidten to radio is a waste in energy and auditory perception...

A set of Mach 1 speakers match up perfectly.

Realistic had some sort of arrangement with a few companies. They would simply rebadge the product like Teac, Akai, pioneer, technics etc. then they would sell at incredibly lower prices for exactly the same gear not even seconds.

I had the STA 120 in the 70's, Great Receiver lasted me a long time, When I took the cover off the first time, Everything Inside was Hitachi.

I have owned an STA-90 for about 20 years but have never plugged it in. I hope to eventually get around to giving it a listen.

I have the same radio in pristine shape with the matching speaker. It was my Dads. It sat in the boxes on the closet. I use it as my secondary station.

They put wax in diesel so the old wick style won't work for long.

Wow! Still possible to find a Marantz 2230B in a thrift store in 2025. You got lucky!

whats yer ca ca ca call sign. Virginia Beach

Do you live in the mountains?

I scored a Marantz SD 432 for $8. Deck one doesn’t play and deck two has a click but other wise works well. You can’t hear the click if the music is loud enough. I’m hoping to find someone that’s able to repair it but for now I’m happy with my $8 purchase.

altitude adjustment maybe?

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Nice find for $130. We all wanted one like that back in the 70s. Cleaned up it would be fun to have as a backup unit or for an office setup. I'm envious!

I had so many of the Realistic stereos through the years and they do great my first one was the sta-77 and it was only 18 watts per channel but it cranked big time and after couple of years i got the 100 watt per channel one and had it for a long time. Totally enjoyed it. Have a good one!

I had a Realistic like this one. I upgraded in 1986 with the STA2700. It is still used. Love them

Momma will be happy

Actually, the STA-90 was indeed made by Foster Electronic of Japan.

the bias may require adjustment... DeOxit may not be the solution.

O Brother

Can you operate on the fly ? What kind of antenna are you using ?

If they’re not happy, it’s cause they have something to hide or they’re doing something that their license says they’re not supposed to be doing!

Bye, bye, IC-255A. Youre gonna make a amateur radio operator very happy some day.

Nice 73

Foster or Fostex built for radio shack most of the time. Edit I've seen that almost all the thrift chains have regular thieves who pull off knobs or turntable heads .. then most of the stores i know of will recycle bin the items. They tell me they pretty much know what guys do this and they refuse to put the price to $2 so the thief gets it for nothing. They junk the items most of the time.

The marantz is 100 times better

Popping

Made in China. No impact on them.

Try some dyed diesel

All high frequency, transformerless inverters, even the new XP series, are a scam.

I beg to differ, The 710 is a SDR radio but the dx10 is the hybrid……

Nice score! Back in '78, I had a Marantz receiver, with a Technics turntable, Sony dual cassette deck, AR speakers, and a Teac reel-to-reel tape player(inherited from my grandfather). The model numbers escape me now, being its been almost 50 years. Thanks for sharing.

New to the channel here but if you want to make it good I’d recommend klipper

Tdr is dual receive.

The problem is everyone is on FT8

I like my Icom 7300, easy to operate and make sound good easy. Also my Kenwood TS-480SAT!! And big ups for liking the Icom 7300!! Sad that we have to buy 10 radios that talk on all bands, not without spending a bunch!!

want to ask you a question - how are you running your panadapter on your ftdx 3000? are you using a dongle from the IF port or the RF port or from the mu tuner port? I've been told to run my dongle from the IF or the RF port so I don't blow the front end out of the SDR when I transmit ( it supposed to isolate those ports on transmit.) I havent much luck because my dumb computer is running windoze 11 and it wants to align the COM ports with audio out even the CAT gets fouled up with backfeed audio... so , most of the folks running a panadapter are using SDR Play units and they are so expensive... just wondering .... thanks and by the way I avoid anything around 7.200 too many lids...

You buy these from a goodwill outlet?