[mikethedruid]

All done, not a bad save, if I do say so myself. Pretty good receiver too. Tonight I listened to her a bit before taking the after picture. Just on the short antenna in my "radio room" where I do all my work, and store all my parts, I was able to get a lot of stations on the standard broadcast band, with just a short wire antenna inside the room. Reception there is marginal at best because my house has insulation with an aluminum shield on it all over the house, which really cuts down on the radio signals, making an outside antenna quite necessary to get decent reception. Despite this I was able to pick up the CHU  3KW signal on 3.33 MC, and the WWV signal on 5 MC quite clearly on band 2, as well as several stations on band 3, although it was after the time when those frequencies are most active. Not bad for a glorified All American 5 with no RF amp stage. Listening to it brought back memories of my youth. It uses a single type 44 bulb to illuminate the dial, and I hadn't remembered how dimly it lit it up until I started to play with it again, and then the memory of that all came back. So here are before and after pictures, just so you remember what a disaster I had to deal with...

BEFORE:
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AFTER:

[Image: https://66.media.tumblr.com/8617cf046d89...fbbc6e.jpg]