09-21-2016, 06:53 AM
I have an update.
Was reading the September finds and losses topic on the Antique Radios forum and saw where a member had gotten a Philco 118 that either was already restored or he restored it.
Anyways I asked him to check the dial tracking and his dial was pretty much spot on except for being off high by 10KHz starting at 1540. he did say that he thinks it may be a Radio Daze dial, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
That means I do indeed have a problem unless there was that much of a variance between the Philco 118 radios where some would be right and others off by varying degrees.
Another thing that makes me think I have a problem is as I said previously the alignment was nearly perfect on AM and off on SW when using the resistor for the shadowmeter, but was initially the same right after re-installing the shadowmeter then right after the alignment it went to the AM band being off and the SW band being pretty much spot on.
I am thinking of getting a N3ZI VFO and using that for an RF generator then trying the alignment procedure again.
Was reading the September finds and losses topic on the Antique Radios forum and saw where a member had gotten a Philco 118 that either was already restored or he restored it.
Anyways I asked him to check the dial tracking and his dial was pretty much spot on except for being off high by 10KHz starting at 1540. he did say that he thinks it may be a Radio Daze dial, but I don't know if that has anything to do with it.
That means I do indeed have a problem unless there was that much of a variance between the Philco 118 radios where some would be right and others off by varying degrees.
Another thing that makes me think I have a problem is as I said previously the alignment was nearly perfect on AM and off on SW when using the resistor for the shadowmeter, but was initially the same right after re-installing the shadowmeter then right after the alignment it went to the AM band being off and the SW band being pretty much spot on.
I am thinking of getting a N3ZI VFO and using that for an RF generator then trying the alignment procedure again.
