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Just bought a Superstar 360 (AM/SSB only) as they're quite hard to come by and it'll look nice amongst my other similar-looking radios.
It's apparently not working, so I'll have to see what I can suss out. It'll probably end up in a box to go to Nick at some point.

The Collector wrote: ↑21 Mar 2022, 10:41 Just bought a Superstar 360 (AM/SSB only)

I like them . The base radio is similar to the 148 GTL . I've had a couple , but I've only got one now . Someone did quite a decent binary adder mod on it , which I've left in . Saying that I will rip it out and fit one of Sue's MB8719 nano/osc mods when she has a chance to finish it .

Bought this guy mainly for nostalgic reasons . One of the breakers that lived near to me had one on his mk1 148 and it always sounded great , so I thought I'd buy this one and see how it sounded .

S

cb4ever104 wrote: ↑21 Mar 2022, 12:36

The Collector wrote: ↑21 Mar 2022, 10:41 Just bought a Superstar 360 (AM/SSB only)

I like them.... Someone did quite a decent binary adder mod on it ...

Is that where they put a sexually-confused snake inside the cases???

The first radio that I ever "tarted up" was one of these. I did the surround in silver (rubbing the badly scratched chrome plating down to the copper primer with wet & dry paper was a bugger), the front panel in graphite grey with white lettering. I called it a Condor Mk2 as Condor was my handle back then. It had the high band crystal missing from memory (plug-in?). It looked bloody good though and the buyer thought it was a legitimate rig until I explained about my new-found hobby!

I'll keep it original, but I just hope it's easily repairable. I'll keep you posted.

I bought a Royce 1-641 SSB/AM 40 channel base yesterday in working and like new cosmetic condition. Due to the age, I will replace all electrolytic capacitors in the power supply. Small value capacitors on the receiver/transmit boards are usually ok for 50 years. Especially so if ELNA brand. I had a 1960s audio amplifier that all were still good.

Bought a rare Eurocomm 40 radio off ebay. The radio was literally covered in a light brown-coloured dust which showed up really badly on the flash-enhanced photo, but that meant that the cheeky offer I made was quickly accepted.

Upon testing, one bit of a digit was missing and the meter was pushed in, but 10 seconds after opening it up, the meter was clipped back in and a liberal squirt of contact cleaner got the bit of digit back!

It's now replaced the one that I already had that's not in quite as good condition and that'll be on ebay later.

I bought this York 863 as it looks very clean

lambrettadave wrote: ↑02 Apr 2022, 08:54 I bought this York 863 as it looks very clean

Nice one
Good to get one that's clean.

I've bought a job-lot of aerials off ebay for £10 plus £14 postage as an offer, but there is a Valor half-breed, a triple-coiled Road Hog-type thing, a dial-match, a Thoroughbred Z27, 3ft Springer and a spare whip, 2x DV base bits, dial-a-match and halr-breed coils, an original Amstrad aerial magmount (what I really wanted it all for) plus the guy's found some more stuff out that he's kindly throwing in too.

I also bought a very tidy Cobra-branded bootlip-mounted aerial base for £12.50 plus postage. Just need to sort out what length whip it 'll need. Should have a whip for it from the job-lot above

Edit - the seller above's sending me a length of co-ax and a PL plug just in case I should want to replace the original stuff on the Cobra aerial. Can't get better than that!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/e-audio-Blac ... 635-2958-0

Sadelta Bravo Plus.. lovely nick.. 2 of those 4” square speakers that a few on here have said were good.. haven’t tried yet , I hate the speaker straight from the radio .. Astatic Golden Eagle… another one..

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fidelity-200 ... 635-2958-0


I see the fidelity 2000 is doing well… Did you have your eyes on that one ‘Collector’…?

JibberJabber wrote: ↑02 Apr 2022, 14:41 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fidelity-200 ... 635-2958-0


I see the fidelity 2000 is doing well… Did you have your eyes on that one ‘Collector’…?

Jeez..£99 posted with 5 days still to go??? They are nice radios, but for that price...

I've already got a nice boxed one thanks. Probably cost me £15 back in the day when radio prices were "normal"

Well I've bought another rig from the states
And these slightly unusual handhelds with rubber ducks instead of telescopic antennas both came with batteries and are working fine

The Collector wrote: ↑02 Apr 2022, 15:39

JibberJabber wrote: ↑02 Apr 2022, 14:41 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fidelity-200 ... 635-2958-0


I see the fidelity 2000 is doing well… Did you have your eyes on that one ‘Collector’…?

Jeez..£99 posted with 5 days still to go??? They are nice radios, but for that price...

I've already got a nice boxed one thanks. Probably cost me £15 back in the day when radio prices were "normal"

Doesn’t look like prices will ever go back to ‘normal’..

lambrettadave wrote: ↑02 Apr 2022, 16:47 Well I've bought another rig from the states
And these slightly unusual handhelds with rubber ducks instead of telescopic antennas both came with batteries and are working fine

Good buy.. I do like the 449…