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    I got me one of these

    Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.



    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.
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    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.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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?
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    XCool find. You'll also enjoy the wood finishing aspect to restoring this beautiful classic.

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    Fake edit: I cut my teeth on a Zenith Trans Oceanic when I was about 3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NA4BH View Post
    Picked one of these up at a local antique auction the other day.



    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.
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    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.
    All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KG4CGC View Post
    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. ;)
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ6BSO View Post
    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.
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