06-17-2018, 09:54 PM
Welcome to an awesome hobby!
I'm going to say that's a Philco 43B from 1932.
I haven't worked on one of those personally but it looks right based on the cabinet, knob pattern and escutcheon shown in the Gallery - as well as the socket layout.
If it is a 43B it receives broadcast (AM) as well as shortwave up to 20MHz. There's not a heck of a lot on shortwave but depending on where you live you may have decent AM reception (all radios of this era require a wire antenna - at least 6ft of wire). Some folks add audio input jacks (you can play music over it via bluetooth) - or you can leave it unmodified and set up an in-house AM transmitter to re-broadcast FM or anything at all that you like to listen to.
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P.S. You should avoid powering it up until again until it has been minimally serviced (filter capacitors replaced) and checked for anything obviously wrong under the chassis. Even 'working' antique radios have parts that are leaking and inefficient - they are of course *many many decades* past their expected lifetimes. It's easy for one of those to short out and take some difficult to replace part with it.
I'm going to say that's a Philco 43B from 1932.
I haven't worked on one of those personally but it looks right based on the cabinet, knob pattern and escutcheon shown in the Gallery - as well as the socket layout.
If it is a 43B it receives broadcast (AM) as well as shortwave up to 20MHz. There's not a heck of a lot on shortwave but depending on where you live you may have decent AM reception (all radios of this era require a wire antenna - at least 6ft of wire). Some folks add audio input jacks (you can play music over it via bluetooth) - or you can leave it unmodified and set up an in-house AM transmitter to re-broadcast FM or anything at all that you like to listen to.
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P.S. You should avoid powering it up until again until it has been minimally serviced (filter capacitors replaced) and checked for anything obviously wrong under the chassis. Even 'working' antique radios have parts that are leaking and inefficient - they are of course *many many decades* past their expected lifetimes. It's easy for one of those to short out and take some difficult to replace part with it.
