I am amazed you even got it to work at all, but I am glad it generated good conversations about the old time CB’s UDX 038 ! I just finished a hell of a job re-tubing and re-capping my Kenwood TS-520s ! And I scored so NOS relays from Japan ! Keep up the great work Mike.🇺🇸😎📡🎙
@390WagonMaster
7 ай бұрын
Thank you sir.
@UDX-21
7 ай бұрын
Royce put the "Fun" in Functionality .
@spaceflight1019
7 ай бұрын
I've been doing this for a long time, and when you're faced with a problem child like this it does become a quandary, or a quagmire, it's time to be honest with yourself. First, ask yourself why you want to restore it. Unless it does something extremely well, like having a noise blanker capable of blanking a nuclear explosion, it might make sense to pass it on to the friend who has expressed interest in it. But if you really, really gotta have it... If you don't need it immediately, put it aside and work on it when you feel like it. It's a Murphy's Law thing that the day after you get rid of it the paperwork you need will appear as if by magic. The other option is to farm it out to a shop willing to take it and be willing to pay for it. Ever since the early 1970s a base station had a mobile that used the same board. It's a Sam's trick if you don't have all of the books. But, there are a few generalities that you can exploit. Most AM/SSB radios use one oscillator section for AM/USB and another one for LSB. This can help you with troubleshooting. There is a crystal oscillator for each one and if they aren't set correctly the sideband won't work correctly. The two crystals and the trimmers are usually close to each other and close to the crystal filter.
@philipbarry9209
7 ай бұрын
You maybe chasing a ghost with cold solder joints. It maybe a bad IF can, mica disease on internal caps etc. I'll be creepin.....
@justinrayguitars6024
7 ай бұрын
I've got one in great condition. It's a beautiful radio and works as it should. Has a good receive but it's not a big powerhouse. Royce radios are a pain in the rear to work on like the modular board ones
@udx-483muddbucket5
7 ай бұрын
It's a nice bench decoration. ✌✌
@texomahondaelement3722
7 ай бұрын
Well Royse was my very first CB, will always hold a special spot in my heart ❤
@Brenda-jf2pe
6 ай бұрын
This was my first Ssb radio in 1975! Hope Mike gives it to Someone who loves Royce ! UDX 39! I need to get on the bench and fix my 1992 Cobra 148gtl Philippine radio 73
@udx-483muddbucket5
6 ай бұрын
@@Brenda-jf2pe Both awesome radios for sure. In the 90's, the friend that really got me moving on radio loaned me a Uniden mobile I think it was and within the first five minutes I made my first contact on LSB to Costa Rica. I was hooked. ✌✌
@jeremynottingham6277
7 ай бұрын
Well, as the Royce Collector I once was, I always wanted the 639 to go with the 642 and or the 641 base. That 641 kicked my butt!! Gyro board aka PLL board. Had to have a "jig" to excite it to do a good alignment then stick it back in the radio... yes, modular boards in some of the Royce rigs made it "tough" for a "Golden Screw driver" tech like my self back in the day to crank them up. and even at that, all of the Royce rigs I have owned over the years were never a big fwrd swinging units or loud ect ect. What did make them nice was, left stock (tune, unmodded) they were great rigs with a decent mic!! Yes even the Blue Turner desk mic. Clean, clear audio, fairly decent RX. This radio you have 390, needs to go to a ol Royce collector that might have a good face plate/K-nobs but is a dead board. This Royce, kinda works, ish, just needs more of the sweet, cigarette smokey basement, old CB guru tech Love. Someone with a decent old O scope, Some cobbled frequency counter, and a decent memory of the days that once were. There is that "Challenge excepted" approach, where ya might think " Gee I'd hate to give up, I used to wing this shxt yrs ago!!" Someone said, shelf it for now, maybe someone has a decent face plate/K-nobs...laying around . When its cold and nasty out side, the house is quiet-ish, maybe sit down with some Sade in the tape deck and flow some solder, clean a relay and power it up once again, its not the "smokey basement" love, but with at least a Sade tape playing both sides twice? it just might do the trick. If not? toss it in the trash, ya gave it your all.....
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