Knobs for an Ultra Troubadour?

[Nick]

Anyone?

Pretty please?

Thanks

[AdrianPH]

Just done a search for an Ultra Troubadour and google came back with a multitude of radios U7961, U960, FM950 and U626 to list the first page, do you have any pictures of yours?

I bought a bag of knobs from Ebay so have no idea what types I have.

Adrian

[Nick]

It's a U6961 / U7961, Trader Sheet 1151

[ppppenguin]

Photo here: https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/ultra_u6961u_696.html

[Geordie McBoyne]

Hi Nick,
has your Ultra Troubadour a cream coloured cabinet. If so, the cream knobs shown in the attachment might be suitable for your set.

Geordie McBoyne.    

[Nick]

Now restored - get your 'excited trousers' on,;

https://youtube.com/shorts/yvagoHPe-CQ?feature=share

This was the first of two of these Ultra "Troubadour"s that I have.

It needed a full capacitor swap, some other minor repairs and re-alignment. Built a small AM MiniMod pantry transmitter tuned to 1025kHz (fixed) driven from a 9V PP7.

This is all driven by a small Anker BT receiver which has an internal Lithium battery which will keep it going for about 5 hours.

I used a BT receiver with a rechargeable battery as I found that using one that relied on an SMPS (as all microUSB chargers are) resulted in too much "hash" across the AM spectrum.

Even so, I put a decent ferrite with multiple turns on the audio cable from the BT receiver to the MiniMod - that improved matters considerably.

[Nick]

Excellent Father's Day card from #2 son for whom I did the radio...