The one thing I don't like about these is no RF gain or MIC gain dials I prefer the RCI 2950 myself
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emperor ts-5010
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I bought mine brand new from Copper Electronics way back! I still run it today with it put in my 2006 VW Jetta with a Palomar 200 A/B Class Amp and a redesigned Wilson 5000! I get compliments all the time on how clear and loud the audio is with an Astatic RoadDevil mic all the time. ❤
I bought mine brand new from Copper Electronics way back! I still run it today with it put in my 2006 VW Jetta with a Palomar 200 A/B Class Amp and a redesigned Wilson 5000! I get compliments all the time on how clear and loud the audio is with an Astatic RoadDevil mic all the time. ❤
This here radio is one of a kind buddy. I have run it under water in my tub and at the beech without an issue. It's not junk at all! One of the cows shit on it when I left it in the field which was Itchy's fault but even though the cb stunk and the crap got in the mic holes it worked. Tuff! I opened it up to clean it and found a lot of fancy words in another language, I think it was Turkish. My friend Blackey said these are made in Mexico so Turkish sounds right. 300.00 is a good price since I bought mine for 550.00 and the mic was extra. I have used the fence out back in the chicken coup for the antenna and it works rally well. I talked to someone from outer space last night who said he was near the milky way. Anyways, it's a good by.i had forgotten all about this radio it looks like a good one, do any of you own one? how do you like it? what makes it unique? if its junk, why is it junk?
i starting like it more and more
is $300.00 too much for this type of radio?
I haven't had any issues with my Emperor 5010 as far as modulation on AM goes, the radio was given to me by a friend after her father passed away, it had been in her closet for 5 years! After 2 years of laying under my bed, I decided to make sure that it still worked, it did, so i bought a flagpole, coax and a A99, this was in February 2023, the radio works awesome, the only thing I changed was the power hand mic, replaced it witha D-104 with good reports, it now had a Turner Plus 3 on it and I'm told it has awesome modulation!
Well people,I have a six prong emperor,A TS 5010,this thing is outstanding,blows my cobra away,not even close,I have a bug light on my porch with 4 florescent tubes,I can put the lights out when I key down on it.I also run a 300 watt Amp with it,I live in ky and and can get out to Texas and Oklahoma.I have it in my ford,my dad was big in radio's this was his setup.whats funny he had the cable company running around the neighborhood for a month.I also have a 5 prong rci 2950 which I've used,it gets out there,I don't know what kind of work it's had but it's not a normal radio,I think tradio's. both hamm radios.My emporeor stock listed just a little over 500.
Six prong and 5 prong?? Are talking about the mic plug as in 6 pin and 5 pin? If so you have it backwards. The Emperor is a 5 pin plug and the RCI 2950 has always been a 6. If they are different someone has monkeyed around with both radios for no reason. These radios are considered export radios. They slide them by the FCC as a 10m radio (wink wink) but they are really a glorified cb. The Emperor 5010 is a great old school radio.
Hi all. For some fun tonight, I decided to try out CW with a paddle on my TS-5010. It performed surprisingly well! The CW is clean and has no chirp. It looks great on the scope. The break-in delay is a probably bit long, but that would be internally adjustable, no doubt.
FYI, after this I tried a Magnum Deltaforce, and an Alinco DX10 on CW for a comparison... Both rigs were almost unusable on CW for various reasons (chirp, delays, etc).
I would put the TS-5010 up there as one of the better rigs from that era. It is a great radio.
73
FYI, after this I tried a Magnum Deltaforce, and an Alinco DX10 on CW for a comparison... Both rigs were almost unusable on CW for various reasons (chirp, delays, etc).
I would put the TS-5010 up there as one of the better rigs from that era. It is a great radio.
73
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Absolutely, the HTX-100 is awesome. I have 2 of them!
. Of course, they are a dedicated 10m radio though, and not an export. (I did the extended coverage mod in mine but left them as USB/CW only.)
The HTX-100 was a real 10m radio. The others are just an 11m radio in 10m radio clothing. The performance on CW verifies that.
Indeed. Nice filters in the HTX-100 too. The TS-5010 does well though. It really does come much closer to the HTX performance than most others of the day.
Ok, so maybe someone can give me a good idea about what happened to my TS-5010, turned it off one night to go to bed, turned it on the next morning, tried to talk to one of my locals, and it wouldn't key up! Switched the meter to modulation mode and it shows modulation but won't key up at all, not on AM, FM or SSB! I had no indications of problems with the radio either!
Wouldn't hurt to make sure it isn't just the coax jumper cable between the radio and the wattmeter that's gone bad.
If you have another radio on hand, set it to the same channel. You can use a small screwdriver shaft into the center pin of the antenna socket as a monitor antenna. If you can hear the Emperor in the other radio, that means the transmit signal is being generated, but it's too weak to see on a wattmeter. That points to the transmitter's RF power circuits.
And if you can't hear it, plug a coax jumper into the monitor radio, unscrew the shell from the plug on the other end and use the exposed center pin to "sniff" for a signal from the Emperor, holding the sniffing antenna near the Emperor.
If you still can't hear anything, the problem is upstream from the transmitter's power circuits. Nothing is feeding into them.
What to do next depends heavily on how this turns out.
73
If you have another radio on hand, set it to the same channel. You can use a small screwdriver shaft into the center pin of the antenna socket as a monitor antenna. If you can hear the Emperor in the other radio, that means the transmit signal is being generated, but it's too weak to see on a wattmeter. That points to the transmitter's RF power circuits.
And if you can't hear it, plug a coax jumper into the monitor radio, unscrew the shell from the plug on the other end and use the exposed center pin to "sniff" for a signal from the Emperor, holding the sniffing antenna near the Emperor.
If you still can't hear anything, the problem is upstream from the transmitter's power circuits. Nothing is feeding into them.
What to do next depends heavily on how this turns out.
73
It is not based on a Cybernet or Uniden hi level modulation design it is designed to be a cheap clone of the low level modulation HR2510/HR2600/President Lincoln. The AM is fine as long as you are not looking for booming AM audio get a galaxy POS if that is what you want. It is almost as good as a HR2510. Cold solder joints and cheap caps are an issue but not so much that it can not be made to perform.
Just like the HR2510 it is a SSB machine.