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Peter is a good teacher. I love his videos. Also consider him a friend. We chatted back and forth via email many times. His channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClqWe58x9q6jx61gB16731A

I have had over a dozen request on how to align the receive clarifier and tx/rx frequencies on the FT-101. I posted up this short video on how to do so.

I would love to collect all those too yes. But then I also will need to get the ZD and a 401. I already have the DX-560. Great old radio. Picked that one up for 100 bucks a few months ago. No RX or TX. Found a bad connection in the VFO and she is running great. I think the twins are harder...

The 101 is probably one of my favorite radios I have ever ran across. Well other than the Kenwood TS-520 rig. The Yaesu sounds great and is pretty easy to work on. You will find many flavors of the rig also, some are even a mix of the earlier models. At present time I have 5 of them. E EE EX...

I can second that. I talk with him weekly. Very busy guy. But if I did cb repair full time I would be busy also. Just no time. Too many old vintage ham radios and test gear to keep alive.

I know Mike very well. And as 222DBFL said he is very backed up. He does not even have time to do videos at the moment. Mike is an excellent tech and puts his heart into a repair. Like myself I have limited my mail in repairs to a select few (for those of you that keep asking). Just do not...

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It is still down. Those that say it is up are not seeing something right. What you are seeing is in your pc's memory.

I talk with Mike frequently. He is quite busy like myself. Heck I get well over 150 emails per day. Over 2k in my inbox. Most will never be answered. Just no time.

Since the Sony Bond (brown glue) has been removed the next thing I would look at is the capacitors on the CPU board. I have seen this so many times, when these capacitors fail they start to leak. The electrolyte can eat circuit traces away. Not only physically leak but internally leak dragging...

There are several 470uf electrolytic capacitors on the display board. With the age of this rig the caps fail and expel electrolyte on to the circuit board. This eats away at the copper traces especially the via's. A via is a plated through hole that connects traces on the top of the board o...

Nice going on taking those caps apart. Re-stuffing is fun!

Just remember that the HP 8656B is a generator. Meaning you cannot transmit into it. She is a fine piece of test gear. Since this is a generator you would need to obtain an external sinad meter to use in conjunction with the HP. I prefer a sinad meter over using a volt meter on AC scale...

Thanks Robb. Strange it did not take more out for sure. Like you said those traces became the weakest link. Thanks for tat URL. I always wanted to mod one like that.

Best looking "junk" I have seen in a while :-) Nice collection!

In this video we take a donor radio and do a little troubleshooting to see just how bad a shape it is in. Since I already have one of these I will probably give this radio away to someone in need.

Robb is correct. I did do a video on this some time ago. Thanks Robb for the mention. Here is the full service manual. This has a lot of information about these radios in it. Any questions pertaining to the 101 can pretty much be found in the service manual. One reason why I love these rigs so...

You don't have to be too specific on the tolerance of the caps. But just replace them with silver dip 1kc caps of same value. Do C13 (80pf) and C131 (1000pf). But add a 0.01uf ceramic disk in series with both of those caps. The main reason for changing them before they go bad is that these...

Sad to say but this is the majority of radio techs today. I hear on the air folks saying how good someone sounds, while I hear distorted pinched off audio. This video shows how uneducated some folks are.