Fabulous Finlandia; 1982 Granada C22XZ5
Tales of woe after the storms. (2007)
Live Aerial Mast
Total collapse
What Not To Do
1983 Philips 26CS3890/05R Teletext & Printer
MRG Systems ATP600 Databridge
Teletext Editing Terminal
Microvitec Monitor 1451MS4
BBC Microcomputer TELETEXT Project
Viewdata, Prestel, Philips
Philips Model Identification
1976/77 Rank Arena AC6333 – Worlds First Teletext Receiver
PYE 1980s Brochure
Ceefax (Teletext) Turns 50
Philips 1980s KT3 – K30 Range Brochure
Zanussi Television Brochure 1982
Ferguson Videostar Review
She soon put that down
1983 Sanyo Brochure
Wireless World Teletext Decoder
Unitra Brochure
Rediffusion CITAC (MK4A)
Thorn TRUMPS 2
Grundig Brochure 1984
The Obscure and missing Continental
G11 Television 1978 – 1980
Reditune
Hitachi VIP201P C.E.D Player
Thorn 3D01 – VHD VideoDisc Player
Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
Fabulous Finlandia; 1982 Granada C22XZ5
Tales of woe after the storms. (2007)
Live Aerial Mast
Total collapse
What Not To Do
1983 Philips 26CS3890/05R Teletext & Printer
MRG Systems ATP600 Databridge
Teletext Editing Terminal
Microvitec Monitor 1451MS4
BBC Microcomputer TELETEXT Project
Viewdata, Prestel, Philips
Philips Model Identification
1976/77 Rank Arena AC6333 – Worlds First Teletext Receiver
PYE 1980s Brochure
Ceefax (Teletext) Turns 50
Philips 1980s KT3 – K30 Range Brochure
Zanussi Television Brochure 1982
Ferguson Videostar Review
She soon put that down
1983 Sanyo Brochure
Wireless World Teletext Decoder
Unitra Brochure
Rediffusion CITAC (MK4A)
Thorn TRUMPS 2
Grundig Brochure 1984
The Obscure and missing Continental
G11 Television 1978 – 1980
Reditune
Hitachi VIP201P C.E.D Player
Thorn 3D01 – VHD VideoDisc Player
Granada Television Brochure, 1970s
Long Gone UK TV Shops
Memories of a Derwent Field Service Engineer
PYE Australia Circa 1971
Radios-TV VRAT
Fabulous Fablon
Thorn TX10 Chassis
Crusty-TV Museum, Analogue TV Network
Philips N1500 Warning!
Rumbelows
Thorn EMI Advertising
Thorn’s Guide to Servicing a VCR
Ferguson 3V24 De-Robed
Want to tell us a story?
Video Circuits V15 – Tripler Tester
Thorn Chassis Guide
Remove Teletext Lines & VCR Problems
Suggestions
Website Refresh
Colour TV Brochures
New Car Radio
How much juice does it use?
I've used a Grinel TR16 in my P106
A board with two holes drilled for head rest. It runs of mains or 24V, so I used a 2nd 12V car battery in the boot.
About 200W SSB.
Top of hill 1500m and long wire to a fence post.
Another time I used FT101ZD from same location, mounted over passenger seat same way, but with a generator beside the car as I don't have the DC adaptor.
That's a pic of a Mk II, like I had then.
I now have a very late model MkIII, but its not been out yet.
The Grinel TR16 is rare outside South Africa. Early solid state rig with late 1970s RCA CDP1802 cpu for secure frequency hopping (Did they pay Hedy Lamarr?). One of the first solid state CPU controlled secure spread spectrum sets.
Grinel was SA Racal before Sanctions. Also called Milcom.
The FT101ZD is hybrid with 3 valves for TX, a 12BY7 driver and 2 x 6164 in parallel pure Class A rather than push pull. Class AB would maybe give x4 power...
I've used my Grinel version of Racal Syncal 30 successfully with a big CB whip. Tunes from 160m to 10m with the internal tuner.
Not my exact model, but very similar.
I gave the Grinel TR16 back to my friend with the local secret Radio museum as it ONLY does 100W to 200W, no use for data modes. Very scary aggressive ALC on it. I must persuade him to let me do a virtual online version as he isn't open to visitors.
I replaced the PA transistors on the Racal syncal30 and now it's not stable below 14MHz. Too much gain.
The FT101ZD is working OK. So maybe 80m at suitable time when conditions are ripe.
Before I broke the previous PA on the syncal I did manage to work the Orkneys one evening on 160m with a 4' fibreglass whip while sitting on settee in living room. Good conditions I guess.
I have a portable bi-cubic ex military aerial that is like a guyed tent pole 12' tall with x4 military whips that screw in. It works without tuning from 40m to 4m. It's nice with the FT187ND (the only new radio I bought EVER in 40 years) and very nice with the 80W battery powered PA I made out of filter board of someone's scrape Alinco and so called "CB PA" from Italy. I had to change the two ferrite binoculars to get it to work below 21MHz. It's OK 160m to 10m with manual band knob or auto switching using a bargraph IC and the the FT817 analogue band signal on AUx connector.
- 21 Forums
- 7,980 Topics
- 117.9 K Posts
- 13 Online
- 331 Members
