Vol17No6 Jun 1991 - Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club

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Vol. 17, No. 6
June 1991
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Robert H. Lingle, G-E radio engineer of Schenectady, NY, at controls of transmitter WOEG installed in the
baggage car of Union Pacific's transcontinental exhibition train.
The Voice of the Nation - Part III
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After WWI William Tumor Lewis entered the radio field commercially. He began
working for Western Coil & Electrical Co., manufacturers of Violet Ray Machines (Figures
1,2 & 3) and, with W.T. Lewis as radio man, crystal sets.
Below is a description of how Lewis combined his love of radio with business. (written
in his own hand)
The location of 9TL, which was licensed in 1919, was in the residence of Benjamin
Franklin Flegel, 1636 Park Avenue, Racine, Wisconsin.
When the writer, First Class Electrician, Radio, was mustered out of the Service,
January 19, 1919, he was approached by Mr. Flegel with the idea of designing and operating
an amateur radio station, primarily to interest his young son, Dean F. Flegel. Mr. Flegel said
he would spare no ordinary expense in building the necessary apparatus if I would design it,
get the federal license, etc. (My former 9JC license ran out when I entered the University of
Wisconsin Electrical Engineering Department.)
Immediately upon being mustered out, I became connected with my present
corporation, Western Coil and Electrical Company, and, consequently, was both radio and
electrical man. What did I have to lose? I agreed to Mr. Flegel's proposal.
Went to Chicago, passed the radio operator's license exam and applied for station
permit and call. It came through, and, of all things, with my initials, 9TL. The Thordarson
transformer seemed to be popular, and so we decided on a one kilowatt transformer with
regulation poor enough, purposely built in, to permit its use as a spark transmitting
transformer.
Mathews and Hassel had a tiny shack and laboratory
almost on the tennis courts of the Edgewater Beach Hotel in
Chicago, where they made the Zenith regenerative receiver
and two-stage audio amplifier. Mr. Flegel was a very efficient
and impulsive person of no mean mechanical ability, and so
he decided to drive to Chicago to pick up the Zenith
apparatus. Incidentally, on his way back to Racine a traffic
condition on the macadam, or dirt, roads caused him to nearly
tip over in the ditch, and, of course, with his Zenith apparatus
on the seat, things were sure to happen. He finally arrived
back home with the equipment, and, sure enough, it didn't
work, so we took the whole thing apart and found a broken
soldered joint, apparently the result of having been shaken up
in the accident.
In those days it was all the rage to have radio apparatus
bus wired with No. 12 and/or No. 14 tinned, copper bus wire.
When you had to tum a comer to make connections with a
socket binding post, the wire had to be very neatly bent at
right angles, usually by means of a pair of snip-nosed pliers. If
anything inside looked sloppy or wasn't laid out like the
foundation of a building or tennis court, the item had no
appeal and wouldn't sell, no matter how perfectly it worked.
We humans!
The condenser (capacitor), which was usually placed
across the high voltage secondary of the transformer, was very
carefully laid out with sheet brass armatures and clear
photographic type glass plates, and when assembled was
immersed in a tank of oil (stops brush discharge).
The spark gap was a rather interesting affair. One must
always be sure that the maximum amount of heat radiation
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was offset, and so it was decided to use a 20,000 to 30,000 RPM
single bar rotor with two contacts, and if I remember correctly,
we used only two stationary contacts, all very carefully insulated.
To reduce ionizing, or arcing effect, we decided to use 3/16"
diameter tungsten rod contacts. Where to get the tungsten?
Fansteel Corporation, North Chicago, was only an hour away,
and so our friend, Mr. Flegel, got into his car and drove to North
Chicago and came back with forty dollars worth of tungsten with
which to make our contacts for the rotary spark gap. The "deionizing" effect, arcing, etc., are tremendously reduced by the use
of tungsten. We used only tungsten in the spark gaps of our X-ray
equipment here at the Western Coil and Electrical Company.
This effect greatly enhances the required poor regulation
purposely inherent in transformers for these uses. As Mr. Flegel
was not satisfied with the multiple paths for the high frequency
currents as they make contact with "ground", what did he do?
Very simple. He simply dug a well right down through the
cement floor of the basement where the transmitter was located.
He reached water at about 20 feet or so and arranged to lower a
metal bucket weighted down into the well and, of course, a large
connecting ground wire back up to the base of the transmitting
oscillation transformer secondary. All connections were made
with exl:!"emely heavy brass ribbon. In some cases certain
components were actually bolted directly to other components so
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that there were no connecting wires or leads.
The antenna, ground, counterpoise arrangementnamely, the secondary radiation system, were the subject of
some experimentation. The antenna was, roughly, 50 feet high
at both ends-four wires on 8 or 10 feet spreaders (flat top),
and the counterpoise, as I recall, had 6 or 8 wires on spreaders
of about the same length. Both antenna and counterpoint were
about 50 to 60 feet long. All four antenna wires and all eight
counterpoise wires were brought into the shack, and
arrangements were such that we could use several transmitting
antenna arrangements, such as, antenna-ground (in the well).
Another combination, antenna counterpoise-without ground.
Silly as it seems, we tried grounded counterpoise-antenna.
Transmitter radiated a little over six amperes using antenna
and ground only. When using antenna and counterpoise, the
RF ammeter would indicate somewhat over six amperes.
The writer cannot recall which combinations proved best
by actual transmitting tests. Of course, if we were looking for
maximum reading on the thermocouple high frequency
ammeter, the antenna-counterpoise showed the maximum.
The writer has always felt that antenna-ground had the
greatest propagation results.
Our good friend, Matty, namely Ralph Mathews of
Zenith, in 1919 or 1920, made a test run up and down the East
Coast of our country and reported that 9TL pounded 41 al1
over the place.
Remember, this is 200 meters right on the button-1500
K.C. We were gratified to have acknowledgements from
several amateurs on the Pacific Coast, and there might have
been considerably more except for the fact that the writer had
a job to hold down in the Western Coil and Electrical
Company and, consequently, his hours of operating after
12:00 midnight were very limited.
Finally the day of reckoning was at hand. Mr. Beane, the
Chicago Radio Inspector, came to check 9TL. Apparently, he
couldn' t believe his own eyes, or for that matter, his
decremeter. As we recall, we followed him out the front door
of the house where we had a last minute conference. Mr.
Flegel and I were waiting to hear what he would say. With his
right foot on top of the porch railing and shaking his head, Mr.
Beane said he wished he had a station like ours of his own. He
said the decremeter registered .02 (logarithmic decrement, so
called, was .02. Believe .2 is passable).
Within a couple of years the 5-watt bottle came into
amateur hands, and 9TL was shifted over to CW.
Incidentally, Mr. Flegel was the inventor of the original
time switch, which was used by storekeepers to tum off their
show-window lights at, say, midnight. There were no
synchronous miniatures available in the old days, and so Mr.
Flegel' s time switches had to be wound up by hand. In other
words, the clock mechanism had to be spring wound. His son,
Dean, is still carrying on the business of his late father, and, of
course, all the clocks are beautifully equipped with
synchronous miniatures, spark suppressing capacitors and
other modem technical items. The company name is Reliance
Automatic Lighting Company.
The late Mr. Flegel was the world's champion bait caster
for many years. In the old days everybody thought that the
best reel was the one which would spin the longest after being
cranked with no line attached. The heavier the reel, the longer
it would spin, of course. Mr. Flegel came out with a reel light
as a feather, small and compact, that didn't spin worth a hoop,
but when a line was attached its drag while being unwound
during a cast was nothing as compared to the heavy longspinning reels. This sounds very simple now, but in the early
1900's it was simple only to our friend, Ben Flegel, and in
those years he walked away with all the diamond medals.
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Real Life Drama in the Radio Service Shop in the Thirties
by Alan Roycroft
PART VI
Upon an early arrival at the service yard, I began loading
the Centerpoise spares stock and checking tires and all the
necessaries that can avoid troubles on the road, when Jean,
our very pleasant service factotum, came up and said, "Wally
wants to see you pronto". This announcement had an ominous
ring so I rehashed all the oddball things that I had done over
the past few weeks and hurried off to the service manager's
office. Thinking maybe the worst scenario could take place, I
would be returned to the service shop under the close scrutiny
of Old Steely Eyes. No way! Wally extended a welcoming
hand and his genial smile told me that the worst was not to
happen, well not right now anyway. "How do you like this
outside work?", he asked. Sensing an opportunity for some
self promotion, I reminded Wally of my real wish to be
assigned to either the radio station or the PA Department or
both. "In time, I have not forgotten, but at this time we think
that you could be better employed as a sort of special agent
with a roving commission over the entire city and suburbs.
You have been the only outside man who has never brought a
radio into the shop. The foreman is most unhappy over this."
He paused while I grinned ear to ear. "The service shop is an
extension of sales and for the customer to be really happy,
immediate on the spot repairs is the way to go. We are
sending out more servicemen on the road and while you will
have regular jobs to do, you will have to attend to the sticky
ones that have not been properly handled in the past." "Do I
get a raise?", I asked, "And a better car too", Wally
responded. "Jean has all her instructions so the best of luck." I
left with mixed feelings. I did not get my pet transfer but I did
get a raise and the knowledge that I had been striking back at
Old Steely Eyes in a way.
Jean handed me a bunch of job sheets, the keys to
another car and an inter department memo to the wholesale
stock room. This last item authorized me to select some test
gear to replace the Weston tube checker with its ready
appetite for octal base keys, and the Weston multimeter with
the real oak case. Jean also said that I had to phone her at least
twice each morning for any urgent calls that required my
attention. I thought that maybe sometime in the future, there
would be equipment made that would allow Jean to push a
button and give me messages directly. In the language of the
day, a pager was a loudspeaker on the wall. I picked out a new
Simpson multimeter with separate AC and DC movements in
one case, a Hickok tube checker and a portable RCA signal
generator. I told the clerk at the counter that I may be back for
more goodies later but what I now had would see me through
the worst. Back down to the Service Yard to find my new car
was another Ford V8, a 1937 coupe. Gee, what a wide swath I
will make in the is heap, just a year old and only ten thousand
on the clock. I hurriedly transferred my tools and spares kit
from the old Centerpoise, left the keys on the rack and hurtled
off in my flashy coupe.
I had only glanced at the top job sheet before I left and
saw it was at Mission Bay, a pleasant seaside suburb, and as I
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drew up outside the address, I started to read the details on the
sheet when I realized there were seven sheets for this one call.
It seems that the people had bought a small Clarion broadcast
band receiver and it had been plagued by distortion after about
an hour's run. The set had been back to Old Steely Eyes three
times, I noted with a glint, and several other servicemen had
called to the house. I was prepared for some bother but not the
rudeness that greeted me at the door. The woman who opened
the door to my knock, called over her shoulder to someone
inside the house, "It's another radio man Dad", and promptly
left me standing on the doormat outside. A beefy, middleaged man appeared. There seemed to be a wild light in his eye
as he announced, "They keep sending younger men all the
time, we will have to run a bottle warmer soon. Well come on
in young'n." I followed the man down a hall into a small
book-lined study and there, stacked on a shelf, totally
surrounded by books, was the Clarion. This model was touted
as a "Book case model". These people had certainly taken the
promotion literally. I asked the man for symptoms.
"Symptoms you want? I'll give you symptoms. The night that
we mistakenly bought this mess, we planned on listening to
some classical music, but halfway through the program the
sound turned mushy. We sent it back, I carried it back myself
to the service place and talked to an old beak who seemed to
know nothing." I had to smile at his description of Old Steely
Eyes, maybe I was amongst friends after all. After some
comments from the housewife, I began to read the job sheets
and found that in desperation, all of the tubes had been
replaced, coupling capacitors, load resistors, you name it,
e~eryone had done their job but still the Clarion had won out
over them all.
I turned on the set and listened carefully, even to the
slight background hum. Everything was fine. I suggested that
they leave the set running and I would return later in the
morning. "Bah humbug!", roared the man, "Two have said
that but they never came back." I tried to reassure the
customer that I would indeed return. I wanted to tell him of
my special "last ditch" status in the service department, but
figured that it would not sound right. I thought of my leaving
my watch or other valuables with him as a guarantee, but I
finally convinced him I was telling the truth and left for
another job. Outside in the Ford I re-read all the entries and
what had gone before. It seemed that the only factor missing
was that bookcase when it was running fine on a service
bench back at the shop. I looked through the sheets and
selected a job in ~ nearby suburb and took off. The next call
was to an elderly couple living in a small cottage that I was
told later by them, they had both built themselves. I entered
their small home in a much warmer atmosphere than that I
had encountered on my last call.
On a side table, sitting quaintly on a hand embroidered
doily was a Zany Gill. A four tube TRF. As I made small tall
I recalled the tube line up, two 224A's as RF and detector, a
47 audio output and the universal 80 rectifier. The two old
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birds were giving me the life history on the set to which I
mechanically nodded until they got on to the matter at hand, it
was another intermittent. I imagined that I would have to
spend the rest of the day there or break my record of never
sending anything back to Old Steely Eyes. "Now and then we
can bring the set back to play by slamming the door", said the
genial old man. Ah, one clue. "Did the dial light remain on
when the set went dead?", I asked. "Oh yes" was the reply, so
down the drain went that thought of loose wiring in the house.
I carefully turned the old Zaney Gill on and waited for the
tubes to warm up but after a minute or so, the set was still
silent. I peered behind the cabinet in an effort to see anything
amiss without disturbing the set. I caught a glimpse of an 80
with the filament out! Woweel I gently pulled the cabinet
around and darn it, the 80 lit up and the set played beautifully.
But I did have enough clues. I plugged in my soldering iron to
heat in case it would be needed. I pulled the 80 out of its
socket with the little wife enquiring, "Won't you get a
shock?'. I thought, if they only knew. Pushing that 80 in and
out of its socket broke my heart, it lit up each time. Well if it
wants to play games, I am ready.
I removed the knobs and chassis screws and pulled the
chassis. A careful inspection of the five volt filament supply
to the 80, from the transformer winding to the tube socket
appeared OK, but just in case, I resoldered the pins on the
socket. Another rectifier tube could eliminate a possibility but
as I looked around the tiny living room, I reallied that the
equivalent cost of a new 80 tube of $3.50 could go a long way
in these people's lives. I was young but I knew all about how
the depression had wrecked the lives of my uncles, so I
unsoldered the four pins on the 80 and there I found the problem: A dry soldered filament pin on the base. Using an ice
pick, I cleaned up the wire coming from the glass pinch and
carefully resoldered it. After reassembling all the works in the
strange peaky looking cabinet, I replaced the set on its doily
and plugged it in. "Oh how nice it sounds", cooed the old
dear, "I have a cup of tea ready for you, you must be hungry".
I thanked her, wolfing down the homebaked goodies and tea.
The bill was most fair as I intended that someone else could
pick up the slack. They would never know what a morass they
had avoided by not having to send that Zaney Gill into Old
Steely Eyes or some other not too fair service shop. I left
clutching my tool kit and a bag of cookies, "that I may need
on the road". Back to the Clarion over the hill.
To be continued.
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Rewinding Transformers
by Alan Douglas
There is nothing magic about rewinding audio
transformers or speaker drivers, and anyone can do it, but a
few tricks will make the job easier.
The only absolute necessities are a rotating mandrel to
hold the windings, and a spool of magnet wire. You remove
the old wire, layer by layer, counting turns and keeping track
of what you find, then build it back up with new wire. Sounds
simple.
Right away you will wish for a motor-driven mandrel,
preferably speed-controlled by a foot pedal, and a turns
counter. The photos show a coil winder that I built many years
ago. (but they don't show the foot control which is a real Rube
Goldberg contraption!) The motor is 24 volts DC, military
surplus; its field is supplied with 20V while its armature gets
zero to SY from an SCR speed control circuit. The turns
counter (from a WW2 radar set) is driven by a 100- tooth gear
meshing with a worm. (actually 1/4-20 threads cut into the
shaft) A friction clutch allows resetting to zero. The counter
reads 9999 turns; the last digit must be guessed at, but there is
never any need to count single turns when dealing with
thousands.
Finding magnet wire can be a problem. You can buy
small spools of wire from Belden, but the spools are of
stamped steel with squarish ends, so the wire won't unreel
easily. I might mention that wire spools are always stationary,
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with the wire taken off over one end. For this sort of work, the
spool goes on the floor, between your feet, you feed the wire
through a cloth held in your hand, and the mandrel turns away
from you. I had the fortune of finding a surplus dealer selling
1-lb spools of assorted wire, and stocked up; these spools are
heavy enough to stay put, and have round ends. By the way,
get heat-strippable enamel if you can: Beldsol or one of the
trade names ending in -eze. It simply melts when brought to
soldering temperature, unlike the older insulations which must
be scraP,ped off (chemical strippers are neither safe nor
practical).
Old audio transformers and drivers are typically wound
with #40 to #42 wire; the large sizes are of course easier to
work with, but you can't always fit enough turns into the
available space. #42 would probably be the best if you buy
only one size, or #41 if you can get it, but #40 is too large for
some earphones or speaker drivers.
Originally all transformers, and the better headphones,
were wound in layers with paper between. You klW. do it that
way, if you can find tracing paper thin enough, but after about
six hours you may wish you hadn' t started. Nowadays wire
insulation is much tougher than it used to be, and the paper is
entirely unnecessary (I used to rewind electric motors as a
summer job during college-to shape a winding into its
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side by side and measure the total width, then refer to the
"turns per inch" column in the wire tables. This is subject to
considerable error from the unknown thickness of insulation.
More accurate, is to bum off the enamel with a match and
measure the thickness of the bare copper with a micrometer
caliper.
You can rewind old power transformers too, assuming
you have the necessary wire sizes and, oh yes, l2ls of
patience. There's no need to go too deeply into theory, since
you 're usually duplicating an existing design, but the wire size
or cross-sectional area is proportional to the current drawn,
and if you don't have the right size, you can usually substitute
(for any given gauge, you can substitute two p~el wires of
three sizes smaller). You can also add windings to modem
transformers: 2 1{2 volt filament windings, for instance. You
only need to know the "turns per volt" of an existing winding,
and calculate proportionally. It is good practice to impregnate
the finished windings of power transformers with baking
varnish-motors are ~ varnished or the vibration would
short-circuit the windings in a few hours-but a lot of 60-year
old transformers weren't and they still work.
allotted space, you literally beat it with a nylon-faced
hammer). It is much easier to fashion a bobbin from cardboard
or fibre ("fishpaper'') and simply fill it up with wire,
scramble-wound. Yes, the winding will have a bit more
distributed capacitance, and you '11 lose a little treble, but
you'll never miss it.
Another short cut is to forget about counting turns on the
original coil. For the average 1:3 interstage transformer, a
primary winding of 4000 turns and a secondary of 12,000 will
work fine. A typical headphone coil (two coils per driver) has
5000 to 6000 turns of #41 wire. In practice, there is no need to
worry about exact numbers. For a headphone, you just wind
the bobbins full of wire, and you can do the same for
transformers too. If you have a selection of wire sizes, the
primary should be #40 or even heavier, to minimize its DC
resistance (since it carries plate current) and for the same
reason it should always be wound first, in the smallest
diameter. The secondary can be #44 since there is no current
flowing in it and its DC resistance doesn't matter.
For determining wire sizes, you can wind several turns
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READERS WRITE
Dear Sirs:
In regard to your article in May showing a
Pacific Radio, enclosed is a picture of a
Cunningham Radio Co. set. It looks like a kissin'
cousin of the Pacific shown. Pacific model 20 in
Riders #10 is the same circuit with a couple of
minor differences. There is no mfr's name on my
set, o~y a plate with patent data and serial no. Is
Cunningham Radio part of tube mfr's business?
Possibly a reader knows something of this co. with
such an interesting name.
Cunningham Radio uses 606 RF, 6C6 det, 43 audio
and 2525 rect., plus ballast tube and short wave band.
Yours truly,
George Hausske
1922 E. Indiana
Wheaton, IL 60187
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Radio Grows Up, So Do I - Some
By Everett Ludley
The music came in clear as a bell, but low in decibels. I
felt like jumping for joy, but I dared not make a move. With
my homemade crystal detector set, I had learned that a slight
jarring would knock the cat whiskers out of adjustment. For
the moment I had forgotten that I now had one of the new
vacuum tubes that replaced the crystal. For this set I had to
buy a mail order "B" battery, and for the "A" source, a rebuilt
car battery. Tonight was to be a trial run, and I didn't expect
the new hookup to work on the first try. I lacked confidence in
my wireless crafunanship.
When I recovered from my initial elation, I adjusted the
rheostat that controls the current to the filament. Then I
moved the slide on the tuning coil very slightly. The music
was louder now. It certainly wasn't grand o~ra from Chicago
which some of the older hams had boasted of hearing. It was
dance music.
Suddenly the music stopped. I clamped the earphones
tightly to my ears. Still nothing. "Oh, oh, I've burned out my
new five-dollar audion tube! " Then suddenly a faint voice
said, "This is 9BNO, Slater, Missouri". {Where the heck is
Slater, Missouri?) That was all. Then came more music.
Probably some ham experimenting with his microphone in
front of the family (hand-wound) phonograph, I concluded. Is
music legal with only an amatuer's license? Well, who cares-it was as exciting as a teenager's first kiss!
As I was writing this, I decided to see if I could locate
this ham in Slater, Missouri. I wrote to the mayor there and he
passed my letter around to some amateurs. I received a letter
which I quote in part, "There was a man here who was the
city Electrical Engineer...his 80 meter antenna was still up
after his death in the 50's. I think he was 9BNO".
I sensed that there was something with a big future in
radio and I wanted to be a part of it. But I didn't know what
to do about it now. My scoutmaster, Carl Howick, was the
one I looked up to for instruction and inspiration. But in spite
of his expertness and the quality of his equipment, radio was
still just a hobby for him. His chosen occupation was
projectionist at the Plaza Theater. In 1919 he taught his scouts
the Morse code, and showed us how to build our own crystal
receiving sets and Ford spark coil transmitters. My original
rig was the type just mentioned. It was very modest compared
to the rotary spark gap transmitters and three-vacuum-tube
receivers that some of the boys with rich fathers had. My
transmitter sounded like a squawker one might buy at the
county fair. But it had an "effective known range" of twenty
blocks. It seemed to work best using my bed springs for an
antenna. And that's no bunk. (sorry!) Fortunately there were
very few listeners at that time, as my broad untuned signal
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came in from one end of the dial to the other.
However, I did get in the doghouse on one occasion
several years later. A local livestock buyer's son had a factory
built set. The father would listen every noon to the Chicago
market reports. Most farmers had to wait for the next day's
newspaper to get the same information. As a result, the buyer
could always buy low and sell high, a simple rule in the
business world. On this particular blue Monday, I came on the
air with my spark coil transmitter and completely blocked out
the voice from Chicago. And in keeping with Murphy's law,
the cattle market had taken a sharp drop. That day the stock
buyer bought high and sold low. He wasn't so friendly after
that.
Another home town Manchester, Iowa experimenter was
Paul Young. He was about five years older than I. He was a
student at Coe College in Cedar Rapids. He told several of us
wide-eyed kids that he and several other pioneers were in the
process of forming a company to manufacture and sell radio
receivers for broadcast reception in the home. He brought a
sample set home during Christmas vacation and showed it to
several of us local hams. It was a beauty with its jet black
bakelite panel and three large tuning dials. He said he wanted
us to be salesmen for the company. He said we would make a
commission of twenty dollars on each set we sold. Wow!
Production was to begin soon. I made a list of a dozen names
of people I thought would be sure prospects. The list was
made .up mostly of doctors, lawyers and bankers. Then I
impatiently waited for my demonstrator set to arrive. It never
did..The company never got off the ground. I guess one of the
backers backed out. So my dreams of big commissions faded
out at the rate of 186,000 miles per second.
But several years later Dick Keckler decided that his
restaurant should be the first one in town to provide radio
music for its patrons. He purchased a new Westinghouse
receiva and a Magnavox horn speaker and several batteries.
The set was one of the first to appear on the fast growing
market with just one dial for tuning instead of three. It
required a 6-volt car battery and a 90-volt "B" battery. The
speaker also required a 6-volt car battery to energize its heavy
field magnet. The speaker had plenty of volume but its fidelity
left a lot to be desired. In my collection today I have a
Westinghouse receiver and Magnavox horn speaker just like
these first ones that came to Manchester.
I helped to install the elaborate aerial system on top of
the two story restaurant building. First we erected two twenty
foot masts at the extreme ends of the flat roof. These masts
were made of steel pipe and were secured with a base plate
and two sets of guide wires. At the top of each pole was a
pulley threaded with a forty foot rope. Then we cut four fifty
foot lengths of bare stranded copper wire. The ends of each
wire were fastened to cross bars so that the wires were about
ten inches apart. Glass insulators were used to isolate the
wires from the cross bars. Lead-off wires about three feet long
were then soldered to each of the four wires comprising the
"flat top" aerial. The free ends of the lead-in wire were then
gathered together and soldered to a long single lead-in wire.
The soldering iron was heated with a gasoline blow torch. The
system was then hoisted by the ropes and pulleys to the top of
the steel masts. Another kid and I manned the rope at one end
while two others operated at the other mast. The man in
charge stood off to one side and told when to pull and how
much. A cheer went up when the aerial was finally in place. It
looked something like a four-wire clothesline that some
people had in their backyards. Some people kidded Keckler
about his $100 clothesline for the birds.
We threw the lead-in wire over the side of the building
and ran it through the top of a window and hooked it to the
radio. Battery sets needed a "ground" wire too. This need was
met by running a wire to a cold water pipe in the kitchen. We
were about ready for the test Keck had already connected the
batteries, he said. He lit a Camel to calm his nerves. He sat
down in front of the set while the rest of us watched and
listened. He turned the small knobs that caused the tubes to
light up. Then he placed his hand on the big dial and turned it
slowly through its full 180 degrees. No response. He advanced
the two small knobs that control the current to the three tubes.
He blew out the smoke he had been holding in his lungs and
rotated the big dial again. No response. He stomped out his
cigarette and looked the head man in the eyes, "what now?"
One of the kids had been looking down at the batteries.
Then he reached down and switched the connections.
Immediately a loud crackling and frying sound came from the
speaker. Keckler's face lit up like flashing neon beer signs did
years later. He turned the dial, -a few whistles and
squawks-and finally brought in a voice saying, ''This is
WOC, the Palmer School of Chiropractics at Davenport, Iowa,
out where the West begins." Keck was exuberant and so were
we! "The drinks are on the house", he proclaimed as he
ordered his soda jerk to fix ice cream sodas or malted milks
for each of us-any flavor! Then he went back to his new
found joy.
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WANTED: US Amateur Callbooks
1920 thru 1945; QST's for Dec 1915,
Dec 1916, Dec 1919, Oct 1921; Have
some 1916, 1917, 1919 for trade. Bob,
W4JNN, (703) 560-7161 or write P.O.
Box 166, Annandale, YA 22003. 6/91
WANTED: Chassis for Lester Piano
radio including dial, pointer & dial
glass. Could use key cover, rack &
pedals. Ken Armstrong, P.O. Box 216,
12/91
Storm Lake, IA.
FOR SALE: Tubes, schematics,
service notes for early radios. LSASE
for price list. Sam Faust, P.O. Box 94,
4/92
Changewater, NJ 07831.
FOR SALE: Abbotware Horse radios,
$125 and $175 or trade for old toys.
Warren Burdine, 1606 Idylwild Dr.,
Prescott, AZ 86301. (602) 778-1608.
1/92
WANTED: 8 day clock for Westinghouse WR8 Column Air radio. Al
Braden, 1911-15 St. S, Lethbridge
Alta, TlK 1W9. (403) 328-6872. 1/92
WANTED: Someone to repair old
transistor radios. Also any early Philco
USA made transistor radios. Robert
Schrantz, 610 East Juanita Ave., San
Dimas, CA 91773. (714) 394-1194.
WANTED: Schematic diagram for a
Readrite model 432A tube tester and a
black snap ring mounted loctal tube
socket. Ken Greenberg, 4858 Lee,
Skokie, IL 60077. (708) 679-8641.
HELP NEEDED: Need any or all of
the following to complete restoration
of Eveready console: 3 knobs and dial
escutcheon. All consoles use same.
Also terminal block cover from 30 or
40 series console. Ed Mondor, 121
Gatewaye Dr., Greenville, SC 29615.
(803) 268-0952.
WANTED: Want to buy empty or full
parts boxes or tube cartons from
1920's and early 30's with good
display value. Any cardboard or other
counter display materials, any condition! Mark Evans, 203 Cactus St.,
Tallahassee, FL 32304. (904) 5757122. Collect OK.
FOR SALE: Radiola III and Balanced
Amplifier both working, 4 WD-11
tubes included, good-excellent
condition. Hallicrafters TW-1000
"Transoceanic", working, clean. Brass
based, NIB, WD-12, $50. Charles
Rhodes, 3906 Quisenberry Dr.,
Alexandria, YA 22309. (703) 7800719.
FOR SALE: Navy RBA trf receiver,
power supply, instruction manual. Set
tunes 15-600 kc, condition excellent,
$100. L.W. Elias, W4DBT, 3919
Poindexter Dr., Winston-Salem, NC
27106. (919) 924-2162.
WANTED: WE 216-A tube base/
driver for AK-L horn; early or Unusual
tubes and pre-1900 light bulbs. Bruce
Harbeck, P.O. Box 452, Boystown, NE
68010. (402) 333-9013.
WANTED: DeForest white dial. FOR
SALE: FADA Neutrolette cabinet,
type 192A 19 l/2"x 8". Everett Ludley,
301 Edgewood Dr., Webster City, IA
50595. (515) 832-3763.
WANTED: Will pay $100 for original
carton for Grebe Synchrophase MU 1
or MU 2. Fred Schultz, 1246 Lincolnway S., Ligonier, IN 46767. (219)
894-3092.
HELP WANTED: Help, Eugene
Tumey radio fans. Schematic and/or
interior photo of Tumey "Multiplex" 2
tube regenerative from 1921. Front
photo would also be helpful. Expenses+ will be gladly reimbursed.
Mark Evans, 203 Cactus St., Tallahassee, FL 32304. (904) 575-7122.
Collect OK.
FOR SALE: AK-40, $50; AK-42, $45
(Bunis p.28); AK-44, $45; AK-60,
$50; AK type "E" speaker, $45;
Radiola 18, very nice, $85; Zenith H7247 brown bakelite, $25; Temple
drum type speaker, good, $25. Ferdinand Estree, 660 Fineviewave,
Kalamazoo, MI 49007. (616) 3440231.
FOR SALE: Galena crystal receivers
and parts, write for details. Sensitive
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and selective circuit developed.
WANTED: Weston type 891 meter,
for parts. L. Gardner, 458 Two Mile
Creek Rd., Tonawanda, NY 14150.
(716) 873-0447.
FOR SALE: Colonial cathedral,
attractive photo finish front, $250;
Crosley E-15CE green coloradio, small
crack on side, $45; Empress Chalet
styled radio, $125; Grunow SB chrome
front, $125; Hallicrafters Sky Buddy,
$125; Nobaflex Three - early "batteryless" AC operated reflex twodialer, $160; Pagoda radio, $45. Greg
Farmer, 71 Rice Creek Way, Fridley,
MN 55432. (612) 571-6062.
FOR SALE: Repaired and repainted
Charlie McCarthy radio. Call (806)
372-6576. Henry Harmony, 4617
Hawk, Amarillo, TX 79103.
WANTED: Capehart, Scott,
McMurdo, Midwest & all deco radios.
TV cameras & radio broadcast equipment, microphones & call plates, transcriptions, literature, blank disks.
Western Electric & RCA equipment/
tubes. FOR SALE: Numerous nice
console, battery, table, military, communication, cathedral radios, phonographs (Atwater Kent, Capehart,
Grunow, Victor, Brunswick, RCA,
Zenith, Scott, Stromberg-Carlson,
Philco, others). Old TV's, jukeboxes;
broadcast & Hi-Fi audio equipment;
microphones, speakers. Need space,
best offers. Interesting trades wanted,
Long SASE. Robert Van Dyke,
Museum of Broadcasting, Film &
Recording, 2 Squires Ave., East
Quogue, NY 11942. (516) 728-9835.
WANTED: Will give good home to an
AMRAD 3500-1(3475/2634),3500-2
(3730/2534) double decker, or any
other pre 1926 AMRAD orphans.
Trade 1919 DeForest P500 Audion
detector or cash (will also extend your
Radio Age subscription). FOR SALE:
RADA shock material $1 per foot+
$1.50 shipping. Anyone interested in
reproduction nameplates for the
AMRAD 2596/2634 double decker,
expected cost $35 for both. Andrew
Mooradian, 5 Priscilla Lane, Winchester, MA 01890.
FOR SALE: Atwater Kent 185A
tombstone, nice. Charles Harper, Jr.,
2081 Harmony Ct., Lexington, KY
40502. (606) 268-8549.
FOR SALE OR TRADE: (Trades
considered for Stromberg Carlson
items only) Zenith 6S229 (GOR p.79),
$130; Zenith 6S511, (1938 BC/SW
bakelite, celluloid handle, pushbuttons), $60; Zenith 5H01 (GOR 128
brown), $50; Silvertone 6022 (1947
tabletop, metal, cream, AM/FM), $40;
Blaupunkt "Ballett" (1960's tabletop,
AM/FM/SW Hi-Fi), $90; Zenith
"zippo" lighter, $15. All items excellent and/or restored. WANTED:
Seriously seeking Stromberg Carlson
100, 200, and 300 series sets, advertising. FOR TRADE: My Zenith
12S245, McDonald Chairside",
exceptional, mint, (see FOS), for
Zenith 12S232 "Walton", like condition. John M. England Jr., P.O. Box
1674, Alexandria, VA 22313. (703)
841-9852 anytime.
FOR SALE: Very clean, operational,
National SW-3 receiver with 20, 40, 80
and 160 meter bandspread coils, National "Velvet" type 5880 AB power
supply, Baldwin "C" phones and set
spare tubes, $300. Purchaser pays
transportation, any overpayment
promptly refunded, careful packing
assured. Clarence E. Filley W7KE,
1109 S. 2nd St., Hamilton, MT 59840.
(406) 363-1946.
FOR SALE: Midwest service manual
photocopy, 200+ pages, covers 19311937, $21 ppd. Mark Evans, 203
Cactus St, Tallahassee, FL 32304.
(904) 575-7122.
WANTED: Western Electric receivers, amplifiers, tuning units, loop
antennas, tubes, parts and literature.
Morel Ingenthron, 9748 Outlook,
Overland Park, KS 66207.
FOR SALE: RCA Victor model 16X3
(1940), 6 tubes, wood cabinet, phono
jack, good condition, works, $25, 11
lbs.; Admiral portable (1947), restored
black fabric case, 6 tubes, AC, works,
$25, 13 lbs., w/ dead battery 19 lbs.;
Car dial light bulbs - free list for
SASE. Leon Horsted, 6616 CTHI,
Waunakee, WI 53597. (608) 846-3287.
WANTED: International Kadette
plastic radios for my collection.
Looking for Kadette Classics, Clockettes, Jewels, Pocket Radios, Toppers,
and any advertising, manuals, or other
literature pertaining to International
Kadette. Will buy or have other radios
available to trade. Greg Farmer, 71
Rice Creek Way, Fridley, MN 55432.
(612) 571-6062.
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WANTED
The following books by M.B. Sleeper:
* Design of Modern Receiving Sets Brown & Blue books
* 101 Receiving Circuits
* 6 Successful Radio Sets
* Radio Design & Construction
* Experimenter's Handbook
Andrew Mooradian, 5 Priscilla Lane, Winchester, MA 01890
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FOR SALE: Riders, GE, RCA,
Philco, Motorola radio TV service
manµals . radio parts, tubes, test equip,
lOOO's of unlisted items. Write wants
SASE. Krantz, 100 Osage Ave.,
Somerdale, NJ 08083. (609) 783-0400.
FOR SALE OR TRADE: 1927 FreedEisemann chassis with wood panel,
absolutely mint condition. Attractive
large brass escutcheon. Cloth wound
battery cable is like new. Will trade for
a 1930 Gloritone model 27 cathedral
chassis and speaker (page 62, "Guide
to Old Radios" by Dave & Betty
Johnson). Dial and control on right
side, not in center. Carl Reinke, 2724
N. 27th St., Sheboygan, WI 53083.
FOR SALE: Hallicrafters "Sky
Buddy" needs help, $27; Granco FM
tuner in original box, $20; Traveler bakelite, unusual shape, $30; early
automatic GE & Westinghouse transistors, 1-177-B military tube tester, $30;
NRI VTVM, $10. FOR TRADE:
Zenith Waltons set for Pilot tombstone
or cathedral. Bill Moore, 1005 Fieldstone Ct., Hsv., AL 35803. (205) 8801207.
FOR SALE: Emerson AM/FM, Hi-Fi
model #895 series B, larger wood table
model, nice, works, $40; Shaun AM/
FM, AC/DC portable, black leather
case, built-in charger, clean, works,
$15; Sears model #5028 TV/AM/FM/
Clock-restored, new pix, everything
works, $60; Courier CB, Mobile,
Niterider 400R, 40 channel, controls in
mic, dig. readout, works, $20; GE-?
model, bakelite, woodgrain sides &
top, white front, table model AM only,
no cracks, $10; Regency Programmable Touch Scanner model #ACTT16K nice condition, works, $45;
Realistic PRO 2 Hi/Lo bands manual
tuning receiver, nice, works, $20;
Lafayette model Lo/Hi/U hand held
scanner, 4 channel, 3 band, priority
one w/ manual & ant., good shape,
works, $25. You pay shipping. Dan De
Marco, 8 Florence St., Auburn, NY
13021. (315) 252-4579 leave message.
WANTED: TVs, 7 in & 10 in sets;
Philco 50-702; RCA 630; Admiral
17All; FADA 799; GE brass fans.
FOR SALE: 6000 volt caps .001 $2.25,
.0047 $2.50. Tony DeMara, 40231
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Day, Mt. Clemens, MI 48044. (313)
263-0325.
WANTED: McMurdo Silver Masterpiece m speaker, power supply, any
condition considered. Also need
140CB4 CRT for Sony, NOS or good.
George c. Harris, 3212 36th Street,
Lubbock, TX 79413. (806) 795-5604.
HONESTLY!
FOR SALE: Homebrew receiver, UV201A & CX-201A RF with ERLA
crystal det and CX-201-A output. Well
built and works well. You ship $75.
John Snow, 4539 N. Bartlett Ave.,
Shorewood, WI 53211. (414) 9640194.
WANTED: RCA 102 table speaker
(looks like 100 drum speaker, except
tag says 102 and came with a "RCA
Uni-Recton Model AP-935" rectifieramplifier unit). Also looking for a
RCA 105 floor model speaker. Jim
Clark, 1292 Starboard, Okemos, MI
48864. (517) 349-2249.
FOR SALE: NOS and used tubes,
more than 1000 tubes in more than 450
different types. Send SASE for lists. C.
Elmer Nelson, 11 S. Church St.,
Princeton, IL 61356.
WANTED: Sterling Deluxe - chrome/
plastic; Realtone transistors; Regency
TR-1. David Mednick, 1450 Palisade
Ave., #SH, Fort Lee, NJ 07024. (201)
461-3082 (until lOpm EST)
FOR SALE: by non collector, Victor
RE-57 in good condition, make offer,
pick up only. Mrs. Lillian Pacholec,
10870 N. Stelling Rd., Apt. 28A,
Cupertino, CA 95014.
FOR SALE: by non collector, RCA
84BT6, 6v semi cathedral in good
cond., please make reasonable offer to
Bud Bading, 3122 Carroll Dr. SE,
Cedar Rapids, IA 52403. (319) 3621265.
WANTED: Early transistor radios,
late 50s to early 60s. Tony DeMara,
40231 Day, Mt Clemens, MI 48044.
(313) 263-0325.
WANTED: Complete dial cover for
Zenith model 6R087, Rider radio #23.
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Ken Goers, 673 S. Robert St., SL Paul,
MN 55107. (612) 222-1982.
FOR SALE: Genuine Steel Galena
Radio Crystals from the 1920s.
Flanged or straight with one new cat
whisker with each, $4 each postpaid.
John Snow, 4539 N. Bartlett Ave.,
Shorewood, WI 53211.
WANTED: Reproduction Crosley
warranty cards; Westinghouse 121B
tube (low current l 12A?); bevel gear
for Kellogg Wavemaster tuning;
moulding/cabinet for RCA 110. FOR
SALE: Radiola 82, repwood grill,
(FOS p. 86, GE Lowboy), NT, $25 PU;
1915 Ruhmkorff spark coil, (VR p.
46),$75.Parts:AK35,36,46;FADA
170A, 460A. Dave McClellan, 1086
Trailridge Lane, Atlanta, GA 30338.
(404) 399-6704.
FOR SALE: Acme variable transformer, "Variac" type 115v down to
50v 400va, NOS $50; 4 prong base
photo tube, used but works, $5; 2000
ohm light weight headphones form
A.E.S., cost $12, never used, $7.50;
Trimm light weight phones, 8 ohm,
like new, $1 O; CBS two Layfayette
mdl HB 90, one mdl 20, for parts or fix
up the three for $20; Slide screw tuner
NIB (write for specs, pie) 500 meg to
40,000 meg, best offer over $50;
xmfrs, meters, variable condensers
from 15pf to .OOlmfd. Write for list.
C.F. England, 98 Montague Ave. SO,
Zanesville, OH 43701. All plus UPS.
FOR SALE: 1950's Canadian
Westinghouse, model 900T5 5 tube
AC/DC white and gold plastic case
AM dual speaker table radio, mint
appearance (untested); Early 50's
American Zenith, model 508W 5 tube
AC/DC white plastic cased table radio,
excellent condition, $50 each (US).
WANTED: Arvin Hop-A-Long
Cassidy radio in very good condition.
Will trade 1933(?) Canadian Northern
Electric, model 514 5 tube AC 3 band
super-het, large wood cased table radio, approximate value $150. All
original but untested. Each pay
shipping charges. Ernest D.M. Yeaw,
RR#3, Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia,
Canada BOK IVO. (902) 657-2554.
FOR SALE: Two Bendix "Air Flow"
bakelites, one model 55LUZ, white,
red knobs, no cracks, $40 + UPS;
model 0526A dark brown, light brown
knobs, hairline (repaired) on right side,
otherwise beautiful, plays great, $30 +
UPS; Set of four ''The Boy Mechanics"
press copyright 1919, very good
condition, $25 +UPS. Kenneth Miller,
10027 Calvin St., Pittsburgh, PA
15235. (412) 242-4701.
FOR SALE: Antique auto buffs - 24
1937 (only) auto ignition circuits
wiring diagrams. Such as Buick,
Packard, Nash, and Lincoln, $5 pp.
John Snow, 4539 N. Bartlett Ave.,
Shorewood, WI 53211.
FOR SALE: Clock-Ad two-way radio
by Regency, red & white, $27.50;
book-1950, Motorola Mobile Station FM Radio Models, $5; sign-tin GE
authorized two way services, $20. All
items plus UPS. Thomas Burnside,
4838 S. Westhaven Dr., Jackson, MS
39209. (601) 922-2235.
FOR SALE: Wilcox-Gay Recordio
OLDTYME
RADIO CO.
NEED HARD TO FIND OLDE TYME RADIO PARTS SUCH AS:
• VINTAGE TIJBES
•AKSTYLE
BATIBRY CABLE
*OLDETYME
HOOKUP WIRE
*BROWN SILK
POWER CORD
•BLACK 1WIS1ED
POWER CORD
• AUDIO 1RANSFORMBRS
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•VINTAGE HEADPHONES
• HEADPHONE CORDS
• ANT,RF, OSC&
IF COILS
•LOUDSPEAKERS
• SPEAKER GRILL CL01H
• PILOT LAMPS
• POWER 1RANSFORMBRS
• MANY OTIIBR IIBMS
#6B 10, radio works, mic. OK, clean,
$75 ppd; Majestic A & B power packs,
circa 1925/26, untested, $45 each ppd.
George Greenberg, 1701 Andtos Isle
K-2, Coconut Creek, FL 33066. (305)
971-9053.
WANTED: Zenith's first color tv,
1953/54 15" model with blondish
cabinet in any condition. Jim Clark,
1292 Starboard, Okemos, MI 48864.
(517) 349-2249.
WANTED: Zenith Stratosphere, 16 or
25 tube model. 12 and 15 tube Zeniths
also wanted. You'll find us to be
generous buyers. We will trade too.
FOR SALE: New - Due out momentarily, a book featuring pictures of 97%
of all the Zenith radios produced from
Chicago Radio Labs in 1921 through
1946. (high quality photocopy) Nearly
all the graphics are from the dealer
hand out sheets from each year. A
valuable and informative source
featuring the hottest brand going,
$24.95 plus $4 shipping. We also have
dealer sheets from many other brands
to aid the collector. SASE for complete
updated list. In addition to our two
black Zenith T-shirts, a silver 100%
cotton Philco T-shirt featuring a 1930
Philco escutcheon with graphics from a
1930 Philco salesman's book, very art
deco, $12.95 ppd, XXL $14.95 ppd.
1936 Zenith poster, 25"x38", $19.95
ppd; 1991 Passport To World Band
Radio, $18.95 ppd; Zenith 12A57 and
12A58 reproduction dial glass, $59
ppd; Zenith Royal 3000 and 7000
owner's manual copies, black and
white cover, $8, color laser, $10;
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D.H. Moore's Vintage Identification Sketchbooks (see flyer for details).
Atwaier Kent lnsuuctors Manual
Atwaier Kent Equipment Catalog
Radiola III - A Owners Manual
Vintage Radio
Flick of the Switch
Radios - Philip Collins
and much, much more. Also we are the sole distributor east of the Mi11i11ippi
of D.H. Moore'• fabulous set of Vintage Radio Identification Sketchbooks.
We also offer complete data packages for most vintage radios of the 1920'1 to
1950'1 erL
For free flyer, send 2 stamp SASE to: OLDE TYME RADIO COMPANY,
2445 LYTIONSVILLB ROAD, SUIIB 317, SILVER SPRING, MD 20910.
Wish to reach us by phone: Call (301) 585-8776 between 10:00 am and 10:00
pm local time.
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Cunningham mechanical pencil, globe
tube at top, $65; RCA mechanical
pencil with tiny floating metal tube in
shaft, $50; vintage Motorola ball point
pen, $45; Motorola 51x16 butterscotch
and green "S" grille catalin, $3995;
FADA 1000, lime green and butterscotch, all original, no cracks, $1900;
maroon Lafayette (FADA) 700, $400;
DeWald B512 tortoise shell catalin
clock radio, $600; Sentinel 284,
cracked cabinet, $300; Zenith 9S232;
Zenith 71232, Zenith 705, $125; RCA
45Xll box only, $15; Zenith 6S128;
Crosley 615 tombstone, $90; Remler
"Scottie" 5510, $350; Toshiba 6TC
485 radio clock, $65; white Crosley
11-lOOU, missing one knob, $125;
very nice Philco 20B, $250; Emerson
157 bakelite, crack, $140; brown
Setchell Carlson "frog eye", $85;
Truetone brown bakelite 157, $75;
excellent Philco PT61 deco, $150; 2
wooden piano transistor radios: black
laquer, $125; Lester maple with bench,
$160; New in tube 1940 banner:
"Admiral Radio, America's Smart Set"
with musical notes, blue and gold, $95;
Admiral Plaskon like 5Z, different
trim, white as on Bunis p.9, $125; EH
Scott chassis only, chrome rated 1 to 5,
5 being excellent, upper chassis first:
Allwave 12 , working, 3 1/2, 2, $350;
19 tube Phantom, no tube shields, 3 1/
2, 3 1/2, $300; Majestic treasure chest
radio, original finish, $225. RCA 140
tombstone, cabinet gorgeous, $400;
NC Space Helmet TV, red, $175;
Silvertone 7" portable TV, $175;
Zenith 5S29, $185; Philco 70, $295;
Philco 20, needs cabinet restoration,
$115; Hallicrafters Continental
bakelite, original green, Raymond
Loewy design, $175; Westinghouse
Reliatron tube thermometer, 1956,
$50; reproduction of Crosley shield for
the empty space on your cabinet, $10;
Zenith Transoceanics: 8G005, $150;
A600,$125; 1000,$175;3000,$175;
7000 American, $295. Zenith consoles:
12U158; 12A58; 12A57; 12H690;
12S265; 12S268, and many others. If
you're looking for a Zenith shutter dial
or other hard to find set, we may have
what you need. We specialize in good
condition and high end consoles, and
we ship anywhere. Please call. Don't
forget to send for our free updated and
expanded merchandise catalog
featuring T-shirts, mugs, posters,
owner's manuals, restoration supplies,
etc. Satisfaction guaranteed, shipping
extra unless noted. (612) 727-2489,
Sam to 8pm CST. Alan Jesperson,
POB 17338, Minneapolis, MN 55417.
WANTED: High impedance (10,000
ohms or more) PM speaker, any size.
Also high impedance earphones. Jim
Hager, 6600 Neosho, St. Louis, MO
63109. (314). 353-3450.
WANTED: Transmitting tubes for
museum, amateur or commercial.
Tubes purchased, traded or donations
welcome. All correspondence answered. Visitors welcome. Ye Olde
Transmitting Tube Museum, A.C.
Jones, K6DIA, P.O. Box 97, Crescent
City, CA 95531. (707) 464-6470.
11/91
FOR SALE: Entire radio collection.
75 battery/early electric, speakers, AM
plastic and bakelite. Send SASE for
listing. Larry A. Voris, Rt. 2 Box
246A, Statesville, NC 28677.
7/91
ANTIQUE RADIO
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*Adjustable High Current "A" Supply
* Short Circuit Protection
* All Outputs Electrically Isolated
* 5 Year Warranty
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WANTED: Leeds and Northrup
instruments, NBS type 4015 series
resistors, Reich Sanstalt 4221B, 4222B
and Thomas 4210; Wheatstone Bridge
4232B voltboxes, Mercury stands 4001
etc. Buddy, 1310 Andover Rd.,
Charlotte, NC 28211. (704) 366-6600.
FOR SALE: Principles of Radio
Engineering by Glasgow, 1936, 520
pages, good cond., $15; 101 Ways to
Use Your Sweep Generator, Sams
TEM-1, 1958, by Robert G. Middleton,
138 pages, good cond., $4.50; Allied
Radio Catalog, 1974, 362 pages, good
cond., $2.50; RCA Air Cooled Transmitting Tubes Tech Manual TT3,
1938, 192 pages, very good cond.
except for some red staining from
cover on some first and last pages,
$15. All plus shipping. Charles Combs,
508 E. Daniel, Albany, MO 64402.
(816) 726-3038.
WANTED: HELP! I need a chassis for
Crosley 33-S or 34-S. Will buy entire
radio. Please call collect. (601) 6862106. Ed Robinson, 305 Deer Creek
Dr., Leland, MS 38756.
FOR SALE: Automobile radio
vibrators. New solid state replacements
for most auto radios 1932-58 in
original style metal cans. One year
guarantee. Free catalog. Visa, Mastercard. Order toll free: 1-800-WE FIX
AM. Antique Automobile Radio, Box
892, Crystal Beach, FL 34681. (813)
785-8733.
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FOR SALE: Riders 7 & 8, $20 each;
Riders 13, $15; Philco 39-70 cathedral,
$40; Mickey Mouse, $8; Radiola 18,
$45; Crosley Super Trirdyn, $70;
Admiral 7P32 leatherette, $5; pastel
green RCA 6XD5, $12.50; Airline
621525 bakelite, $12.50; Philco 40140 AM/SW, $40. LSASE list 100+
radios. John Lyle, 1161 SW Mulvane,
Topeka, KS 66604. (913) 232-0128.
WANTED: Electronics Illustrated
June 1961, November 1972; Meisnner
plug in short wave regenerative receiver coils; McMurdo Silver regenerative receiver coils 125-Bl l, 125Bl2, 125-B13. Al Bernard, P.O. Box
690098, Orlando, FL 32819. (407)
351-5536.
WANTED: Ozarka 95. FOR SALE:
19 set antenna tuning coil, $2; Big
Bird NIB novelty. Plus postage.
Gordon Wilson, 11108-50 Ave.,
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada TGH
OH9. (403) 434-6257.
FOR SALE: RCA Service Parts
Directory for RCA 1950-51 TVs. Includes schematics for chassis KCS-31
through KCS-68, 141 pages, $15 ppd.;
Philco Transitone portable 50-620 for
parts only, not working, $12 ppd. R.J.
Eastwick, N2AWC, 224 Chestnut St.,
Haddonfield, NJ 08033. (609) 4292477.
FOR SALE: Tube Hi-Fi's, Fisher SA
300B power amp, $150; Fisher Stereo
Master lOOB, $75; Scott Stereo Master
type 130, $75; Endocardigraph made
in Milwaukee, Wis., $75; Guild
"Country Belle" tube radio, looks like
old wood wall phone, $100. Please add
for UPS. Will consider trading for any
old toy trucks, cars, etc. Warren
Burdine, 1606 ldylwild Dr., Prescott,
AZ 86301. (602) 778-1608.
FOR SALE: Battery radio tubes, most
are NOS, NIB, $3 each: lAl, lBl,
lCl, 101, lEl, 52, 108, 1SB6, 3A8,
1C7G, lD7G, 1E5G, 1E7G, 1F5G,
lGGG, lHGG, 1H4G, USG, 31,
UGG, 33, 34, 49, 1A5GT, 1A7GT,
1B5, lHSGT, 1N5GT, 1T5GT.
Transoceanic tubes - $4 each: 1LA4,
1LB4, 1LH4, 1LN5, 1LD5, 3Q5; new
(tubular) Mallory 80vf 150v capacitors, 4 for $5; rebuilt (battery) RCA
WV-65A VTVM (1947) with manual
leads, $20; 8YP4 (test) CRT, $10;
high-quality 2.3 uf 600 volt screwbase
capacitors, isolated from case, fits 1/2
inch hole, 2 1/2 inch long, glass seal,
$2 each; Enrico Caruso 78's, $5 each;
NOS 12 volt PA amplifier: StrombergCarlson AM-49, with original brochure, works great, 12 volts, $35 firm;
NOS 12 volt turntable that plays 7" 3345 (use in R.V.) $10 firm; NIB
temperature probe for Beckman 310,
$20 firm. WANTED: 6L6GC, 5881, 4
X 20uf/450V (can) capacitors, 2 meg
audio-taper controls having tap at 1
meg. Jim and Nadiene Farago, 4017
42nd Ave. S., Mpls., MN 55406-3528.
(612) 722-0708 call before visiting.
FOR SALE: Crosley 649A, brown
plastic table radio, horizontal louvers,
vertical center slide rule dial, 5
pushbuttons on top, plays good, no
back, $60; Novelty Wall Telephone
tube radio, plays good, $50. Send
SASE for list of radios and books for
sale to: Mark Neubrand, 618 Gypsum,
Saline, KS 67401.
FOR SALE: Forty Riders under $40
each, assorted 40's-50's radio magazines and books. Free mile of wire
with any purchase from my list. Send
LSASE for list. WANTED: Radio
Shack of Boston (pre 1963) small
tuners, amps, literature. P. Majewski,
P.O. Box 92, Tamaqua, PA 18252.
FOR TRADE: Transistor radios.
Trading Regency, Zeniths, Emersons,
Sonys, Toshibas, Standards, Hoffmans,
Motorolas, novelties, etc. Eric Wrobbel, 20802 Exhibit Ct., Woodland
Hills, CA 91367. (818) 884-2282.
WANTED: Zenith 6D326 table model
(looks like mini-console), see Bunis p.
166. Jim Clark, 1292 Starboard,
Okemos, MI 48864. (517) 349-2249.
FOR SALE: Dick Tracy "Wrist
Radio" set, 1950's, by Remco, very
nice; Bendix lamp and clock radio;
Crosley 9-403 M 10" TV set, made by
DuMont; Benrus lOB clock radio (p.11
April ARC) with original brochure;
black Hoppy Cassidy radio, no foil.
Charles Harper, 2081 Harmony Ct.,
Lexington, KY 40502. (606) 2688549.
WANTED: 2.94 K ohm 1/2 watt 1%
and 7.87 ohm 3-5 watt 1% resistors;
owner's manual for Harman-Kardon
Citation One. Thomas Crocker, P.O.
Box 11582, Glendale, CA 91226.
(818) 246-4757.
WANTED: Cabinets: Philco 20,
Philco 90, Apex Super 5, Amberola
16, Federal 141. Speakers: Philco 20,
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BUYING 1920 - 1924 BATTERY SETS
Amrad, Clapp & Eastham, Cutting & Washington, DeForest, Federal,
Grebe, Kennedy, Leutz, Paragon, Radiola, Tuska, Crystal Sets,
AK Breadboards and Cathedrals.
Serious collector, will consider others and entire collections. Can travel.
Ed Bell- 5311 Woodsdale Rd., Raleigh, NC 27606 (919) 851-1517
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Philco 90. Don Sturzenbecher, Rt#3,
Box 28, Sioux Falls, SD 57106. (605)
368-2135.
FOR SALE: Parts, new & used, NOS.
I have junked 100' s of radios in the
last 15 years for parts. I may have that
tube or part you may need. No lists.
Write wants. SASE for reply/price.
Krantz, 100 Osage Ave., Somerdale,
NJ08083.
WANTED: Celluloid dial for Majestic
Charlie McCarthy, will pay top price.
Also want the metal cans for two tube
Atwater Kent TA units. Need cans
only in brown or black. Don Patterson,
636 Cambridge Rd., Augusta, GA
30909. (404) 738-7227.
WANTED: Pilot audios transformers.
FOR SALE: AK audios replacements
inserts, only no can, $20. E.A. Smith
2714 Alden Rd., Baltimore; MD
21234.
WANTED: A replacement tuner for a
7" Teletone TV set model TV149.
Charles Harper, Jr., 2081 Harmony Ct.,
Lexington, KY 40502. (606) 268-8549.
WANTED: Ozarka portable Model
299 as shown above in any condition.
Jonathan Winter this is the one I spoke
about to you. Don Patterson, 636
Cambridge Rd., Augusta, GA 30909.
(404) 738-7227.
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Pittsburgh Antique Radio Society,
Inc. (PARS). David W. Kraeuter, Secretary, 506 E. Wheeling Street, Washington, PA 15301. Pub: The Pittsburgh
Oscillator, quarterly Dues: $10.00.
Quarterly meetings.
Antique Radio Club of America
(ARCA). James Rankin, 3445 Adaline
Drive, Stow, OH 44224. Pub: The
Antique Radio Gazette, quarterly.
Dues: $12.00. National and regional
chapters.
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Vintage Radio and Phonograph
Society (VRPS). Larry Lamia, P.O.
Box 165345, Irving, TX 75016. Pub:
The Sound Wave, quarterly. Dues:
$13.50. Monthly meetings, Spring
Auction, Annual Convention.
Puget Sound Antique Radio Association (PSARA). Info: Max A. Kaplan,
14902 84th Avenue Ct. N.W., Gig
Harbor, WA 98335.
Michigan Antique Radio Club
(MARC). Jim Clark, President. Pub:
"Chronicle", quarterly. Meets bimonthly. Dues: $12/year pro-rated.
Write: Larry Anderson, 3453 Balsam
NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49505.
Northland Antique Radio Club
(NARC). P.O. Box 18362, Minneapolis, MN 55418. Pub: NARC Newsletter, six/year. Dues: $10.00. About six
meets a year.
Southern California Antique Radio
Society (SCARS). Edward Sheldon,
656 Gravilla Place, La Jolla, CA
92037. Pub: California Antique Radio
Gazette, quarterly. Dues: $10.00. Four
meets per year.
Houston Vintage Radio Association
(HVRA). Bill Werzner, Pres., P.O.
Box 31276, Houston, TX 77231-1276.
Pub: Grid Leak, monthly. Dues:
$10.00 ($15.00 local). Regional Meets.
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Florida Antique Wireless Group
(FAWG). P.O. Box 547432, Orlando,
FL 32854-7432. Dennis Williams
(407) 895-0146 and Paul Curry (407)
365-9305, co-founders. Bi-monthly
newsletter.
Antique Wireless Association
(AWA). Joyce Peckham, P.O. Box E,
Breesport, NY 14816. Pub: The Old
Timers Bulletin, quarterly. Dues:
$10.00. National and regional conventions. M.useum.
Mid-Atlantic Antique Radio Club
(MAARC). Monthly newsletter. Some
local events. Joe Koester, President.
Dues $12/year, 2 years $24, (one free
issue), 3 years $36 (two free issues),
lifetime $180. Write: Nevell
Greenough, 62 Nancy Dr., Hamilton
Square, NJ 08619.
California Historical Radio Society
(CURS). Membership Secretary Adam
Schoolsky, 38007 Stenhammer Drive,
Freemont, CA 94536. (415) 791-0330.
Dues: $15 year. Seven swap meets,
four quarterly journals, and two biannual Audio News Tapes.
Indiana Historical Radio Society
(IllRS). Spring swap-meet, flea
market, auction, contest. Pub: IHRS
Bulletin, quarterly. Dues: $8.00. Info:
Contact Ed Taylor, 245 N. Oakland
Ave,. Indianapolis, IN 46201. (317)
638-1641. Please include SASE.
New England Antique Radio Club
(NEARC). Marty Bunis, RRl, Box 36,
Bradford, NH 03221. (603) 938-5051.
Pub: THE ESCUTCHEON, quarterly
(call or write for free sample). Dues:
$10. Quarterly Meets/Auctions.
Kentucky Chapter Antique Radio
Club of America (ARCA). Kentucky
has a new chapter. Dues are $12
yearly. Send check to KY Chapter
Antique Radio Club of America for
membership to: Robert E. Dickerson,
Pres., 1907 Lynn Lea Rd., Louisville,
KY 40216. (502) 447-6399.
The Southern Vintage Wireless
Association (SVWA) has been formed
in northern Alabama to promote
antique radio preservation and related
activities in the southeast. Meetings
will be held quarterly in conjunction
with flea markets/swap meets. Anyone
interested in joining should contact
Bill Moore, 1005 Fieldstone Ct., HSV,
AL 35803. (205) 880-1207.
Alabama Historical Radio Society
(AHRS). Don Kresge, President. 4721
Overwood Circle, Birmingham, AL
35222. Monthly meetings 4th Monday
except Dec. at Homewood Public
Library, 1721 Oxmoor Rd., 7pm.
Museum being.planned.
Northwest Vintage Radio Society
(NVRS). Info: Dan Howard, 2940 S.E.
118th Avenue, Portland, OR 972661602.
Niagara Frontier Wireless Association (NFWA) Your membership is
welcomed. You may join the NFWA
by sending $9 (American Funds) for a
one year membership to: NFWA c/o
Art Albion, 440 69th St., Niagara
Falls, NY 14304. Dues are payable
each Jan. New members may join any
time for $9. Floyd Engels, President.
Radio Age
636 Cambridge Road
Augusta, Georgia 30909
Antique Radio Club of Illinois
(ARCI), secretary - Carolyn Knipfel,
Rt. 3, Veteran's Rd., Morton, IL
61550. Dues: $12 per year. Publication: ARCI News. Six meets a year
including Radiofest.
Club Events
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Northland Antique Radio Club,
Radio Daze '91, May 31 & June 1.
Swap meet, programs, speaker &
more. For info. call (612) 425-0089.
Write NARC, Box 18362, Mpls., MN
55418.
NEARC Summer Swap & Sell Meet,
July 20, 1991 at Resurrection Center,
449 Broad Street, Nashua, NH. 8 am to
1 pm. Info: Marty Bunis, RRl, Box 36,
Bradford, NH 03221. (603) 938-5051.
ARCA 1991 Convention, June 13-16,
Holiday Inn, Timonium, Maryland. For
more information contact ARCA, 312
South 10th St., Akron, PA 17501.
Radiofest. MARC Extravaganza '91,
July 12-14, Holiday Inn, Lansing, MI.
For more information call Jim Clark,
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through May; one swap meet in
Spring; four quarterly "Radio Club
News" (sample issue, $2.50 ppd.).
Dues: $15 for calendar year. Information: contact Lois Watson, SecretaryTreasurer or Clyde Watson, Editor,
8311 Via de Sereno, Scottsdale, AZ
85258. (602) 948-6466.
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