AKD 2001, an early 1990s 2M transceiver.
I'm not nostalgic about valve radios, not at all. This sort of thing leaves me cold. I'm a fan of the sort of solid state radio where you can understand the circuit, the ones where if they have software it's only there to give a PLL some divider values and maybe hold a memory or ten instead of the radio being a peripheral for a computer. So when I saw an AKD 2001 for sale on eBay, untested for spares/repairs I put in a cheeky bid and won it for a bargain £8. The AKD radios were reasonable quality little units with OK performance but they looked like something that was built from a kit with a microphone and two digit, seven segment channel display that are both more than a little reminiscent of a CB. They're also really dated (unless they've been updated after purchase) with 1750Hz toneburst for repeater access and 25KHz channel spacing which makes them less useful than they could be with modern repeaters needing CTCSS and often being on a 12.5KHz channel. ...