No doubt I’ll make mistakes, but equally I will learn a great deal, and with that knowledge, I’ll be able to bring my working collection of radios back to some former glory also. So the plan is to work on these broken radios (you never know, I might even fix a couple along the way) and then armed with much knowledge, work on the real working rigs in my collection.

 

It’s interesting how I obtained these old radios for reconditioning, it started with me doing a website for a used car sales yard, instead of cash I asked for a small car, that was a trade in that had a few months registration on it that wasn’t worth reregistering again. So the car had a limited lifespan and useability, thus limited value. I drove the car for a few weeks because I had a bit of travel to do right at that time, then after that, I went back to working from home, so I no longer need the car.

 

I traded the car for a telescope, the man was happy to get the car, I was glad to get rid of it, after all it had only cost me a couple of days building a website. So I started using the telescope at the time, although I had another plus giant binoculars, it was a good scope, a 6 inch Synta, a fairly foolproof scope. Seeing I had other telescopes I never really use the 6 inch except for a couple of times just after getting it, so basically it sat on a shelf and aged.

 

I then advertised for radio parts when my radio hobby was revived and as luck would have it a chap contacted me with ten old radios and they were in pretty bad condition (exactly what I wanted) and he wanted a telescope, so once again it was a perfect trade, and now I have the radios as you can see below.

 

So it’s funny the twist and turns you can take during a lifetime and not to mention the zigzagged road some of your possessions take before they adopt you. I’m going to take my time and enjoy working on these old beauties, remembering that some of them are older than me, and all the time ensuring I maintain the number one rule, having fun.