{"id":24,"date":"2019-01-26T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T19:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-03T15:09:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:09:08","slug":"old-radios-more-on-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/2019\/01\/old-radios-more-on-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Radios&#8230; More on that&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philcoradio.com\/gallery2\/\">Philcos!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Had my wife help me carry the <a href=\"http:\/\/philcoradio.com\/gallery2\/1948b\/#Model_48-1283\">1948 Philco 48-1283<\/a> upstairs from the &#8216;shop&#8217; to the dining room. After fiddling with the AM radio alignment for a month, I got it (wrestled it) to a place where the stations were coming in at the right places on the dial, and I&#8217;d replaced a few resistors and capacitors that were out of spec, looked funky, or had leaked noxious goo in the first alignment attempt. I got to the point where I didn&#8217;t need to see the schematic or procedure. I was done sight reading and had gotten the piece memorized. So I put the chassis back in the cabinet, wired it all back up to the phonograph and speaker, put the knobs on and took it upstairs.<\/p>\n<p>As for the barn radio, the <a href=\"http:\/\/philcoradio.com\/gallery2\/1949a\/#Models_49-1602_49-1603\">1949 Philco 49-1604\/5<\/a>, A case must be created. The dead radio came back to life when I re-soldered a broken lead to the antenna. No further alignment or servicing was necessary. Duh. New filter and coupling caps took care of its audio problems, and I&#8217;ve been playing it on the bench for the past month while I mostly have been working on the &#8217;48 model. The case building will have to wait for summer.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s a wrap. For now. Now I know how to align an AM superhetrodyne receiver.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; OK, summer is here. Here&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyWSGc67Tys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">radio playing<\/a>&nbsp;in the case in progress&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philcos! Had my wife help me carry the 1948 Philco 48-1283 upstairs from the &#8216;shop&#8217; to the dining room. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ken-beck.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}