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FM Reception 46-480 - Owells - 07-06-2008

Hope all had a nice holiday weekend. I get lousy FM reception in my area. Just a couple of stations and they are somewhat fuzzy. My 46-480 picks up several stations with the antenna I made but I have to turn the volume all the way up to barely hear anything. AM stations are just fine. Can anyone shed some light on the FM? I have a modern radio that picks up the same stations but I get plenty of volume from that radio. Thanks!

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- Ron Ramirez - 07-06-2008

Hi

Have all paper and electrolytic capacitors been replaced? Tubes checked? Set aligned? And...is the set's FM antenna connected properly?

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46-480 FM Reception - Owells - 07-06-2008

Thanks! Yes to all of the above. Everything went smoothly. I did have a problem with the Loctal sockets after I pop-riveted them back into the chassis. The heads of the rivets wouldn't allow the tubes to seat properly. I filed the heads and cleaned all the sockets per instructions found in another post and the tubes seat well now.

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