Homemade Ghetto Blaster Boombox

Music: "Micro Boogie" by 8 Bit Weapon

The local drive-in theater broadcasts the audio on a FM radio frequency. We needed a digital radio because analog radios can't quite tune on to the frequency. So we built one by ourselves using junk!

Our Parts:
1 Office Depot file box
1 toggle switch
1 tuna fish can
1 Volvo 850 power antenna
1 Dodge Neon antenna cable
1 Pioneer radio from early '90s
2 Ford 6 x 8 speakers
2 RJ-11outlets
50 ft phone cord
12 one inch #8 machine screws
Auto body and trim tape

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• homemade
• radio
• pabst
• tuna fish
• power antenna
• phone
• boombox
• drive-in

[Veebroo]

When it is so advanced, why does it still need a switch?

[redstapler95]

@Veebroo Because there was no signal on the remote wire on the radio. The box is hot as soon as the battery is connected and the radio has its own power switch via volume knob. The antenna would have a hot signal as soon as the battery is connected and if I used the hot wire for the signal, it wouldn't go back down because of the loss of main power. Thus the switch is there to regulate the signal.

[Veebroo]

The remote is probably not powerful enough to drive the motorized antenna, you could have just as easy used a transistor or a relay connected to the remote wire....

[redstapler95]

@Veebroo The remote wire doesn't drive the motor at all. The antenna has a microprocessor control unit that watches for a constant signal from the radio. When the control unit sees the signal, it activates a relay to switch on the power from the power source (not the radio). When the remote signal from the radio is gone, the control unit will bring the antenna back in (which is why the antenna has a slight delay between flipping off the switch and actually going down).

[jayholley123]

that deck is from a rover ?

[redstapler95]

No, it's an aftermarket Pioneer tape deck from the early '90s.

[MSCompuServ]

Watch the amps or those wires will disappear.

[hilololomoa]

made in usa

[Pendor42]

this video could be two minutes long

[redstapler95]

Nope, I'm not in PA. I'm on the other side of the country.