03-13-2015, 12:46 PM
I'm at my dad's this weekend and he's having me look at his old radio. It is labelled as Philco 40-155.
It used to work years ago in our house but it hasn't worked since he moved to a retirement condo. We plug it in, the lights come on, and we just get a lot of humming. If I mess with the volume, I can get the hum to come and go but it's always there. If I adjust the tuner, there is no audible change in anything -- all 3 bands behave the same way. The only thing we can do is make it hum louder or quieter. There is some crackling too as I mess with the knobs. We've only ever gotten true "static" out of it once.
I tried hooking up an extension cord (only copper we have) to the antenna screw with no change in behavior.
I know this isn't very helpful but just curious if there's any general tips or directions to explore would be greatly appreciated.
It used to work years ago in our house but it hasn't worked since he moved to a retirement condo. We plug it in, the lights come on, and we just get a lot of humming. If I mess with the volume, I can get the hum to come and go but it's always there. If I adjust the tuner, there is no audible change in anything -- all 3 bands behave the same way. The only thing we can do is make it hum louder or quieter. There is some crackling too as I mess with the knobs. We've only ever gotten true "static" out of it once.
I tried hooking up an extension cord (only copper we have) to the antenna screw with no change in behavior.
I know this isn't very helpful but just curious if there's any general tips or directions to explore would be greatly appreciated.
