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I bought a similar item from a charity shop. The BASF 9341. It's in great condition visually. Like new. It also has the original BASF microphone with the orange windbreaker (I think that's what they are called?).
The radio is perfect, but the tape when it plays just has a screeching sound. No audio coming from the tape.
If the radio is perfect, this means that the overall unit amplifier is fine but the tape circuitry could be faulty.
The tape is running at normal speed, all the belts are fine.
Does anybody have a schematic for this model so I can fault find it? Thanks.

 

Thanks. I think the BASF 9320 is identical from looks anyway. But can't find that either.
I can find the circuit diagram of the 9320 but no PCB layout.
The amplifier when the tape is playing is screeching and noisy. Statically and clicky.
There is no noise whatsoever on the radio. Just pure high end audio. Incidentally it is the cleanest FM is have heard on a radio in a long time. Amazing quality. Huge bassy sound.
There is no semblance of whatever tape audio I am playing whatsoever. Just noise. If I had the schematic and the position of the components, I would know where to start probing.

 

I am pretty good once I know where everything is. I cleaned the tape/Radio switch and that is fine. I checked with the multimeter.

 

The internal Record / Playback switch (usually on the PCB) is another part that often causes problems. If the contacts are dirty the head might not be being fed through to the amplifiers.

 

After looking at the recent Binatone Hip-Fi pictures I did a search on eBay. No Hip-Fis but I did spot this which made me think of @Mister X

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/tv-radio-cassette-recorder-combination-unit-by-binatone-/175479624861

An unusual screen size, maybe 9".
I'm sure there would have been AKAs of this sold elsewhere in the world. The styling of the power button next to the Tuner is a give-away. In other markets that would have been for a VHF tuner, but there was no point in fitting that to a U.K. market product as from about 1970 all stations have been on UHF.

 

They were shooting themselves in the foot by taking out VHF for the UK market.
The Republic of Ireland had the same PAL system but used mainly VHF. They had UHF transmitters as well, but mainly VHF.
So, they eliminated one potential market in doing that.
Even in Northern Ireland nobody would buy this device as 70%-80% of the NI population had a tendency to watch the Irish channels on VHF.
The Unionists would never admit to watching RTE but they all did if they could get it.
Especially if there was an exclusive movie or sports event on.
A lot of people in Wales watched the Irish channels too.

 

I can imagine the complaints from people in Birmingham "VHF doesn't work as I can never receive anything" Actually until 1985 people would have got an unwatchable rolling 405 line picture like a negative.

Regarding transmitters, in Bristol a friend lived on the top of a high hill (Dundry) and had a TV with a rotary tuner. Just using the loop antenna on the top we once tuned through the UHF band and got about five versions each of the same three stations, although none with a perfect picture due to interference from yet more transmitters.
This site is interesting if you are in the U.K.
https://tx.mb21.co.uk/

 

Another model that @Mister X might like. For the person who wants to be able to watch TV and copy tapes probably all with terrible quality,
Again this is UHF only although the tuning dial looks as if it was wide enough to include UHF bands.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155004282624
I suspect this one is missing a speaker. That was probably the one someone managed to fit in their bin.

 

I also love the way they highlight the 'features' on units like this, 'soft eject' 'high speed dubbing' as if they are unique to this product, when in reality, they are so short of worthwhile features they have to highlight the poor ones they do include!

 

Or "Stereo" or "Auto Stop" or "2-Way Speakers" (when one of those speakers is just a cheap piezo tweeter from a talking greeting card)

 

When I was 10, somebody gave me this Saisho stereo for Christmas.
Junk, Garbage.
The thing is I had about 20 pre-recorded cassettes.
When I went from Play to Fast Forward, the permanent erase head would still be in play and would erase a bit of the pre-recorded tape.
You had to press Stop before Fast Forward to avoid this.
I ended up ruining three or four pre recorded cassettes before I realised why it was doing this.