Galaxy 929 time machine

[Eldorado828]

The feeling of being Marty Mcfly, just not so far back in time.

Now I know the 929 isn't a vintage tube radio or even regarded very highly to many but this specific one took me back for some reason. Occasionally I go through the radio closet and pull out an oldie just to take it for a spin. This guy here, is one that was picked up back during the otr tenure. New Old Stock virgin never put in use as back then my excuse for buying another was to have a backup radio in the truck. Seemed I always left the backup radio at home and you can't be out on the highway without a backup radio right haha.

So the reason for this thread is because this radio reminded me of when a cb radio came out of the box transmitting, receiving and was on frequency right out of the box. The components were nicely installed on the board and everything was just tidy as it rolled off the assembly line. Soft red channel display and meters weren't the today standard eye scorching blue. Mitsubishi bipolar rf transistors, the old Toshiba audio ic, glass receiver/nb diodes instead of the blue shcottky we're used to seeing today.The knobs and controls turn smooth in a way I'd forgotten they once did.

The audio though, it's just a single final 1969 but man that audio ic and bipolar transistors sound super clean and clear.

More Crazy, this radio is from that short era where Ranger was producing radios in China and even then it trumps the Malaysian or Vietnam Galaxy.

Yeah, I know it's just a 40 channel cb with no ssb!! but..... the quality of build is what took me on this trip today. If only all of our radios of today could still be made as well as this... You know back when there was still care involved! Can you fellas relate?

 

[nomadradio]

Sweet! 2003 radio. Build quality of that era was good, but they skimped on heat-sink compound under the power components various insulating washers.

Back then if a customer wanted the AM transmit maxed out we would insist on "suicide intervention". Adding the missing compound seemed to extend the life of radios from this era.

And if you have one with a visible air gap under the final, or the modulator transistor adjacent to the transistor's leads, the solder must be allowed to flow and permit the transistor's back surface to lay flat against the insulator. That gap is a suicide issue in some radios, as well.

On the whole, the 2547 of that era was probably the high point of build quality, before lead-free and Vietnam production.

73

 

[loosecannon]

had one of those of that vintage, and worked on quite a few of them.

only problem was that the backlit faceplate would make noise in the receiver.
LC