I got my Executive Satellite in an estate sale grab box for a dollar (lucky me). The PDF manual was no way near as helpful as this video. Thank you! Now if I can just learn how to hunt my local stations in Southern Tennessee. Where is your buy me a coffee button?

Excellent. Thank you

So you had split on? 🙈

I’m curious if you have tested it receiving cw signals. Can the bandwidth be set narrow enough? Thanks for your review - it was very helpful. John - WA4RXO

Thank you Sir.

It was fascinating to connect the VNA to a manual antenna tuner in line to the antenna, you can twiddle the knobs and see the SWR waves go up and down as you manipulate the inductor and capacitors. I’m new at this and never used a manual antenna tuner before this. It would have been frustrating to operate the antenna tuner blind.

Solved my issue thank you.

Can you imagine being in West Germany in the 60's and 70's? They were smack dab in the middle of the shortwave broadcast universe, in those days! I was in West Virginia at that time and shortwave was absolutely fascinating, listening to the outside world.

Maybe open the radio and look for a pwr adjustment pot.

good presentation

I have a Mohican in great shape that was my husband's. What would the value of this be and is there a market for these?

While it's true that the RSPdx is almost twice the price of the Nooelec sdr+upconverter, the RSPdx has the ability to connect 3 antennas. I would also prefer having 1 piece of gear rather than 2, all else being equal.

Anything that amplifies noise at the same rate as signal is effectively just extra signal loss. Spend the money on a better antenna

I bought an S-40B with some good potential off eBay about 10 or 12 years ago and spent some time recapping, aligning and generally getting it into what I consider excellent condition. I wound up replacing the toggle switches, one of which was broken. Amazingly, these were still available in their original form. Alignment is an art form. I have spent countless hours aligning everything from S-38s to Hammarlund SP-600s (48 adjustments in the RF section alone). My feeling is that dials were designed using a prototype chassis. Given the vagaries of parts control, they just don’t fit all the production units very well. Oscillator points should be adjusted about 10- to 20-percent in from each end of the band to get the best fit throughout the band. The frequencies specified in the alignment instructions should serve only as starting points. Once the main tuning was aligned as well as possible, I developed frequency graphs on the bandspread logging scale. An outboard crystal calibrator is helpful for this. I restrung the tuning and bandspread dials using 50-lb test, microfilament, braided fishing line. This is much better than regular dial cord, as it provides exceptionally smooth tuning with minimal slack or backlash. The bandspread on the S-40B lacks the nice flywheel present on the original S-40. My unit is also setup to plugin an optional outboard Heathkit GD-125 Q-multiplier. This improves selectivity. Many years ago, a ham buddy taught me how to tune single sideband using combinations of the sensitivity and pitch controls, and CW and AVC on/off switches. For tuning SSB as well as narrow bandwidths produced by the Q-multiplier, the main drawback of these old radios is stability. They drift significantly during warmup, and somewhat less thereafter. All things considered, the S-40, S-40A and S-40B were excellent cost-performance tradeoff options for hams and SWLs 70 years ago. Yours, sir, is a beauty and must give you lasting satisfaction in its restoration.

Great information, got my eye on the latest one of these this helps in the decision to buy one.

Thank you, much appreciated and very clearly explained.

Thanks for these videos! I am seeking an RF amplifier that can input 250mw and boost to 3 watts+. Frequency range is 470-480mhz. Do you have any recommendations? Do you take on custom work? Thanks!

Why do so many of these radios still have muting while tuning when we know it can be disabled? Surely the manufacturers know that most shortwave listeners hate it when radios do this.

I know this is 1 year old but I hope you see my comment. Thank you very much for this video. I had the same issue you had. I did what you said and it fixed this problem. My SWR hardly flickers now. I had to make sure the split band was within the ham bands and I also turned the split function off. Both had to be done in my case. I have a random wire 35.5 ft antenna with 9:1 unun and common mode choke on the feedline near the antenna and transceiver. My antenna runs along the wall in my room. I know it is very compromised but now I know my SWR is under control and I might have a chance to talk to someone with the SWR under control. I am handicapped with arthritis and have a heart issue, that's why I have it inside. Makes it a little easier than outside. Thank you very much again for this video. It helped me very much. I have had some strong signals come through on my indoor antenna, too.

Good detailed explanation. Looking to get one soon and this is a big help. Thank you.

No BFO for CW & SSB reception?

The handle on top is usefull for tieing a rope to for a boat anchor.

This video would be better without background music.

Air Band on this wasnot good...The 🐻 cat was still better .....I like Icom ...I have a VHF Marine by Icom....like it

I have been using the Sony ICF -38... for AM DX....I got California and Oregon 740 San Francisco and St Helen on 1500... very good from my area in the Pacific....The problem with the Eton it is chugging... they should go back to Analog....I have a Jensen that is bad on AM... very hard to DX with it

Why would you support or buy any radio that mutes between stations and has AGC problems because it uses a chip?

Nostalgia has a valid home in ham radio.

My old yaesu FT-7900 has Mic connector at control head, but they Yaesu re-designed to Yaesu FTM-6000, Yaesu made same mistake by placing Mic Connector in Main unit. AG6JU

Excellent Explanation good service to Humanity and consumers

Used programming cable from QYT-8900D, with downloaded software from the QYT software page, happy to discuss further

I wondered why I couldn't make a ontact on 40m. Turns out I was OPERATING SPLIT. Its almost as bad as calling cq for a 1/2 hrs only to find out I was connected to a dummy load.😂

I converted a Wilson 500 antenna to 6m just by bypassing the coil. works great!

I have one in the garage I have had since the late 70s /80s (I'm a pack rat of maybe someday useful stuff). Sounds like a fun project. Thanks for the idea.

Well done. Concise and articulate explanation!

Thanks for the video.

I clamped a ferrite core at the antenna coax end, reason, SWR kept changing when moving the feed line on the car. Once that was done, it stopped it's sensitivity of SWR change. Works great on 10M's.

If you like old, heavy, and big radios... that supposedly look good...then you might like these old SX series Hallicrafters receivers... especially, if you think mass = class. Ok... I guess... for free... if you want something to hold the basement floor down. Otherwise... except for perhaps the sound (if that's your thing) any modern receiver will kill them.

Lots of S-40 turn up... at least around here. (noting rare for sure... and not a great radio either.) I think it's mostly because of the Hallicrafters name. (for sure, there's an S-40, in more than a few basements, as ballast, to hold the floor down.) As for decal kits (or even cap kits) ... I think they sell a fair amount of them. It's not a rare receiver at all.

*Здравствуйте! Разнос для репитера, этот какой пункт в меню?*

Почему у меня при настройке ретрансляторов нету звука возврата сигнала?

Just use an RJ-45 extension cable to extend the mic. Or an regular Ethernet cable and a f-f RJ-45 connector.

Thanks for your review. I gotta say when I seen that the microphone couldn't be attached to the faceplate when separated from the actual radio, so with me, I'm out as far as this radio. I think they should of thought about being able to attach the mic like other radios that you can just mount the faceplate and place the radio body under the sear or behind where you're sitting.

I've read conflicting opinions regarding the Eton Elite Executive's external antenna port. Does it require a stereo or mono 3.5mm miniplug?

Great detailed review! What would you recommend for a great prep emergency radio that can pick up police, weather etc? Thanks

Sorry Sir, I didn't mean to be rude or disrespectful. I didn't realize the spring part could ware out. My mistake. I admire your knowledge and experience with electronics which is far beyond mine. Lou

Dear Radio Topics. Never did get your name but I've been trying to get your attention. Please see comment I left under your Nordmende Globetraveler video. Thank you. Lou

Come on now! No disrespect, but I can't believe that such an intelligent technician couldn't figure out how the carrying handle on this radio works and made a totally incorrect assumption that it was poorly designed. A world-renowned radio company, Nordmende, would never design a flimsy non-functional handle, such as you assumed, for any of their products. The HANDLE is designed to lock in place at the two metal posts on each side of the radio body when you firmly pull the handle away from the posts. The handle doubles as a stand to raise the front of the radio when it is laid down.

The icom icr 705 is as sensitive as the 8600 plus portable Bluetooth GPS for half the money

In case anyone is interested, I came up with a long-awaited Normende Globetraveler Short Wave Bands modification. Goodbye long dial string. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZC9iaegnLiqppI

Thank you for sharing. Did you ever tried the scramble mode? if so, did it work? The reason I am asking is : in AllyExpress advertise one of the its function is scramble mode. Just wanted to know if it actually has one and if it does. Does it work? or it's just a fault advertise. thanks