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NA4BH
10-30-2011, 06:09 PM
Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.

http://www.antiqueradios.com/gallery/d/46678-2/Philco_39_7C.jpg

It needs a some wiring changed out and a good cleaning. The old solder is a bitch to clean out. Got it for $30. The picture is not the one I bought.
NQ6U
10-30-2011, 06:14 PM
Hey, cool!

My grandmother had one just like it in her basement in San Francisco for years. I think it was the nucleus around which my interest in radios crystalized.
K7SGJ
10-30-2011, 06:17 PM
Hey, cool!

My grandmother had one just like it in her basement in San Francisco for years. I think it was the nucleus around which my interest in radios crystalized.


Oh, a crystal radio?
KG4CGC
10-30-2011, 07:47 PM
XCool find. You'll also enjoy the wood finishing aspect to restoring this beautiful classic.
KG4CGC
10-30-2011, 07:54 PM
Fake edit: I cut my teeth on a Zenith Trans Oceanic when I was about 3.
KK4AMI
10-31-2011, 06:02 AM
Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.

http://www.antiqueradios.com/gallery/d/46678-2/Philco_39_7C.jpg

It needs a some wiring changed out and a good cleaning. The old solder is a bitch to clean out. Got it for $30. The picture is not the one I bought.

Push button Tuning? It kinda looks like a Ford Car Radio mounted in a box.
N8YX
10-31-2011, 05:55 PM
Did any of you pick up on the fact that the thing appears to receive LF in addition to AM BC?

If the set does in fact cover 180-545KHz (and those dial markings aren't "Meters", corresponding to the BC frequency range), it makes me wonder if the receiver isn't a Euro-specific model. They have an LF broadcast allocation.
NQ6U
10-31-2011, 06:43 PM
Did any of you pick up on the fact that the thing appears to receive LF in addition to AM BC?

If the set does in fact cover 180-545KHz (and those dial markings aren't "Meters", corresponding to the BC frequency range), it makes me wonder if the receiver isn't a Euro-specific model. They have an LF broadcast allocation.

I did, because my father and I hung a LF antenna in my grandmother's back yard. There wasn't much on there but various beacons.
WØTKX
10-31-2011, 06:44 PM
Fake edit: I cut my teeth on a Zenith Trans Oceanic when I was about 3.

Our parallel histories scare the crap out of me. ;)
N8YX
10-31-2011, 08:27 PM
I did, because my father and I hung a LF antenna in my grandmother's back yard. There wasn't much on there but various beacons.

250-280KHz is home to a goodly number of Mediterranean LF broadcasters. One of these runs in excess of 2 megawatts output; I've heard the station in Ohio using a marginal setup.
NA4BH
10-31-2011, 09:46 PM
The sad thing about this is, I was bidding on a Victrola record player that had the original crate (wooden) that it was shipped in and quit bidding at $875.00. I am still kicking myself in the ass over this. That was a once in a lifetime deal. STOOPID, STOOPID.............. It played and had extra parts with it (stylus and other things). STOOPID, STOOPID. Could have turned a big profit on this one.................. DAYUMM..........
KA9MOT
11-01-2011, 01:38 AM
Nice find!!!!
W1GUH
11-01-2011, 12:03 PM
Did any of you pick up on the fact that the thing appears to receive LF in addition to AM BC?

If the set does in fact cover 180-545KHz (and those dial markings aren't "Meters", corresponding to the BC frequency range), it makes me wonder if the receiver isn't a Euro-specific model. They have an LF broadcast allocation.

Looks like it's meters. To a first approximation 100 on the top scale corresponds to 300 on the lower, and 150 to 200.
NA4BH
11-01-2011, 12:27 PM
Here is a close up of the dial

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106/6302668973_be22871485_z.jpg
kb2vxa
11-02-2011, 09:11 AM
Yup, meters alright; 1MHz = 299.9232M or 300 if you like round meters.